Talk Talk Cyber Attack

Bank details as well as other information accessed in cyber attack at Talk Talk...BBC News

Thats who Reg is with

I havent got his phone number now but if someone else has it please let him know. He will need to change his passwords if its not already too late.... Apparently Talk talk knew about this on Wednesday and fraud squad have been involved. My phone and broadband is with Post Office and I pay with CASH over the counter. Same with water and electric, I pay at Paypoint, CASH. No fecker gets my numbers if I can help it. And the rates. Hope same doesnt happen to Paypal though..... 

I've phoned him, but Janet had beat me to it!

Thanks Cam   bugger all gets past Janet   Monie wise, thats why i tell her nowt 

Mcqueen wrote:Thanks Cam   bugger all gets past Janet   Monie wise, thats why i tell her nowt 

Robbed by 'jihadi' cyber hackers: Conmen who stole TalkTalk customers' details are already raiding their bank accounts 

• Cold-calling began even before the firm realised details had been stolen
  
  
• The company alerted Scotland Yard and the major banks on Wednesday 
  
  
• But by then some of the four million TalkTalk customers whose sensitive data may have been leaked were being contacted by criminals
  
  

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Conmen have been raiding the bank accounts of victims of the TalkTalk mass cyber-attack.
The fraudsters started cold-calling targets even before the broadband firm realised that customer details had been stolen.
The company alerted Scotland Yard and the major banks on Wednesday, going public about the hack on Thursday night. But by then some of the four million TalkTalk customers whose sensitive data may have been leaked were being contacted by criminals.



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Baroness Dido Harding, head of TalkTalk, which has suffered a 'significant and sustained cyber attack'
One victim’s bank card was used for a £600 shopping spree before further purchases were blocked.
TalkTalk admitted yesterday it still had no idea who was behind the attack or exactly what was stolen.
And, as touts offered the personal data for sale online, it emerged that:

• A ransom has been demanded for the return of the information;
  
  
• A group claiming to be Islamic extremists said they were responsible;
  
  
• Cyber-security experts said TalkTalk should be ashamed;
  
  
• A formal probe was opened by the Information Commissioner into the breach.
  
  

Last night, victims revealed that scammers had used a range of ploys to try to get hold of their money.

HOW DETAILS ARE ENCODED

Encryption is a way of scrambling information into a form called cipher text, which cannot be easily read without authorisation. To read an encrypted text, a user must first have access to a secret key or code that will help decipher it.
All companies which handle sensitive payment information are obliged to encrypt data.
Details such as customers’ credit card or debit card numbers must be scrambled, although the owners’ names do not necessarily have to be.
All of the information must be stored behind layers and layers of security, and put in different virtual ‘compartments’ so that cyber-thieves who manage to get their hands on any data will have to break through many more layers of security before they are able to piece together a full picture.
Hilary Foster, a barrister’s clerk from Surbiton, south-west London, found that scammers had tried to go on a shopping spree funded from her bank account.
Many of the payments were declined but thieves still made off with more than £600, which they spent at Tesco and Office shoes. 
When she called to block the card, the bank asked her whether she was a TalkTalk customer: ‘I was in a blind panic. I am really, really angry TalkTalk found out about this on Wednesday and didn’t tell customers until a day later.’
Conmen also sabotaged a TalkTalk customer’s broadband line on Wednesday morning.
Iain Frater, a trainee doctor from Glasgow, said: ‘They slowed my internet down then phoned pretending to be TalkTalk support. They had all the details you would expect, including name, address, phone number and account number. The guy really sounded like he was in a TalkTalk call centre.’
When Mr Frater became suspicious and tried to end the call, the fraudsters warned him his computer was at risk of exploding.
Chief executive Dido Harding apologised to customers last night but said it was too early to consider compensation.
Asked by Channel 4 if the company had failed to invest in sufficiently tough online security following two previous attacks, she replied: ‘In retrospect – absolutely. I would be the first to admit that.’