Shaun Nichols reports the latest on the 2015 TalkTalk hack:
Two chaps in the UK have admitted stealing more than 150,000 customer records from TalkTalk.
Matthew Hanley, 22, and Connor Douglass Allsopp, 20, both from Tamworth, copped to charges in connection to the 2015 attack on the broadband ISP’s systems and subsequent attempts to sell people’s personal data to fraudsters.
Hanley pleaded guilty to three charges of violating the Computer Misuse Act and one charge of supplying an article for use in fraud, while Allsopp pleaded guilty to supplying an article for use in fraud and supplying an article intended for use in the commission of an offence.
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