It looks like the UK’s legislators are following in the footsteps of the Beltway: huff and puff, ask questions, and probably do nothing.
Alexander J. Martin reports:
Executives at TalkTalk, including CEO Dido Harding herself, may face a grilling from Members of Parliament over the shoddy security practices which led to the theft of than a million Britons’ data from her company.
This morning the Culture, Media and Sport Committee announced it had “launched an inquiry into cyber-security following the recent attack on TalkTalk’s website.”
The inquiry will be titled “Cyber security: Protection of personal data online inquiry” and follows confusion at TalkTalk as to how many customers’ details had been lost, and how dangerous such a loss might be to those customers.
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