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October 24, 2015 12:00 am

TalkTalk Customer Data At Risk After Cyber-attack On Company Website

An anonymous reader writes: Police are investigating a "significant and sustained" cyber-attack on the website of TalkTalk, an internet and TV provider, which could have compromised customers' credit card and other personal details. The telecoms provider has 4 million customers in the UK. It is the second time in the past 12 months that TalkTalk customers have been affected by data breaches. "We are continuing to work with leading cybercrime specialists and the Metropolitan police to establish exactly what happened and the extent of any information accessed," the company said on Thursday night after revealing the attack, which took place on Wednesday. Its chief executive, Dido Harding, said: "We take any threat to the security of our customers' data extremely seriously, and we are taking all the necessary steps to understand what has happened here." TalkTalk was informing its customers immediately about the attack as a precaution, she added.

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