Nicholas Fearn reports: As one of Britain’s most notorious cyber criminals, Daniel Kelley played a leading role in the 2015 TalkTalk data breach. The hack was catastrophic for the telecoms firm, resulting in a financial loss of £77 million (€90.7 million) and the stolen data of over 150,000 customers. Kelley would go on to spend…
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Parents of teenage computer hacker convicted for his part in the TalkTalk data breach get suspended jail sentences for transferring £200,000 of ill-gotten Bitcoins from a seized wallet after his arrest
Phoebe Eckersley reports: The parents of a teenager who hacked into TalkTalk and sold personal data for cryptocurrency have been spared jail. Carlie, 44, and Jason Gunton, 45, whose son Elliott Gunton was convicted, were given suspended sentences for helping transfer funds on behalf of their son, it was heard at Norwich Crown Court today….
TalkTalk hacker also breached EtherDelta cryptocurrency exchange
Catalin Cimpanu has the scoop on this one: US authorities have indicted two suspects for hacking cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, changing the site’s DNS settings, and redirecting traffic to a clone where they logged user credentials and then stole customer funds. One of the two suspects is Elliott Gunton, also known as “Glubz,”…
UK: TalkTalk hacker Daniel Kelley sentenced to 4 years in jail
From the Crown Prosecution Service: A blackmailing hacker behind the TalkTalk cyber-attack – which cost the company £77million after the personal details of 157,000 customers were stolen – has today (10 June) been sentenced. Daniel Kelley, 22, admitted targeting at least six organisations by threatening to sell their hacked data on the ‘dark web’ unless…
TalkTalk hacker Daniel Kelley became ‘ruthless’ cyber criminal after being rejected from college computer course
Emily Pennink reports: A teenager rejected from a college computer course became a “ruthless” online criminal who took part in the huge TalkTalk hack and blackmailed the company’s former chief executive. Disgruntled student Daniel Kelley, from Llanelli, turned to “black hat” hacking when he failed to get the necessary GCSE grades to get into a…
UK: Computer hacker, 21, faces jail for stealing customer details from TalkTalk in massive data breach which cost the mobile network £77m
Henry Martin reports: A computer hacker who stole customer details from mobile network TalkTalk in a massive data breach which cost the company £77m in lost business is facing jail. Daniel Kelley, 21, was one of a group of cyber criminals behind the massive data breach in October 2015. The gang also demanded 465 bitcoin…