The Belfast Telegraph reports that a teenager scheduled to appear in Norwich Youth Court on October 18 is thought to be connected to the hack of TalkTalk back in October, 2015. On Thursday he was accused of seven counts of offences against the Computer Misuse Act 1990 during October 2015, following an investigation by detectives…
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Has your internet provider been compromised? Malicious insiders are helping cybercriminals hack telecoms firms
Danny Palmer reports: Be they disaffected insiders or victims of blackmail, staff at telecommunications firms are providing cybercriminals with the information required to carry out cyberattacks against their employers. With the sector a top target for hackers — as demonstrated by last year’s TalkTalk hack — Kapersky Lab’s Threat Intelligence Report for the Telecommunications Industry warns telecoms providers that…
German cops in India to probe data-breach case
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The CID, along with German cops, is raiding several places in Salt Lake and New Town for the past 48 hours in connection with a fraud worth several crores involving a German firm. The accused had allegedly set up an IT firm in Sector V and was providing technical support to the…
Hungryhouse resets thousands of customers’ passwords
Kat Hall reports: Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach at a third party hosting company. Scott Fletcher, chief executive of Hungryhouse, said: “We had no affiliation with the web hosting company that was hit by a data breach. But when our head of…
Talk Talk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy suing Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun for alleged breach of privacy
Remember when I expressed surprise on Twitter that The Telegraph, a UK publication, actually named this kid? Within hours, the publication silently deleted it, but there’s been so much reported online and on Twitter that his identity is pretty much out there already. Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyber attack on TalkTalk…
Hackers hit 14 new firms including Vodafone and sell YOUR details on ‘Dark Web’ as major probe is launched by Britain’s ‘FBI’
Ben Ellery and Jaber Mohamed report: Criminals are selling the private details of thousands of British consumers online as a result of the TalkTalk hacking scandal – and dozens more major companies are affected, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Confidential information including names, addresses, mobile phone numbers and bank details of TalkTalk customers are…