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Talktalk Hacked Again
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Seems this time the hackers have gained access to customer bank and credit card details.
Oh joy !
Having just paid a bill using my American express card (early payment 10% discount option) guess I will have to get a stop on the card and a new card issued.
Oh joy !
Having just paid a bill using my American express card (early payment 10% discount option) guess I will have to get a stop on the card and a new card issued.
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Complete joke TalkTalk ....
Customer data not encrypted ...well they don't know !
How can you not know For Funks Sake. It's like not knowing if your takes petrol or diesel lol
Also seems like the attack was an SQL injection hack. Very basic and old one.
They basically left the key under the mat and the money in a neat pile on the hall table.
Customer data not encrypted ...well they don't know !
How can you not know For Funks Sake. It's like not knowing if your takes petrol or diesel lol
Also seems like the attack was an SQL injection hack. Very basic and old one.
They basically left the key under the mat and the money in a neat pile on the hall table.
I read somewhere today that some parts are encrypted and others aren't. Not good enough especially when you have already been hacked twice this year and you hold security details of over 4m customers. At least we will all get one year's free security monitoring but we shouldn't need it. Just not good enough.
Am I missing something .....but the credit agency they are giving 12 months access to is free already anyway ?
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Oh gawd it gets worse. I just hope we get the nitty gritty soon. We had fraudsters accessing our postboxes in our flats a few years ago. They stole credit card and bank statements and opened bank accounts and took out loans fraudulently. Even got passwords and DoBs. Never got caught even though the police knew who it was. It was a nightmare.
From the Guardian...TalkTalk cyber-attack not as bad as first thought, company says
TalkTalk said the amount of customers’ financial information stolen by hackers was “materially lower” than first thought and would not allow money to be taken from bank accounts.
The embattled telecoms company said on Saturday that the cyber-attack, which took place on Wednesday, targeted its website and not its core systems.
“We do not store complete credit card details on the website; any credit card details that may have been accessed had a series of numbers hidden and therefore are not usable for financial transactions,” TalkTalk said.
The Metropolitan police cybercrime unit’s criminal investigation was continuing, it added.
TalkTalk said the amount of customers’ financial information stolen by hackers was “materially lower” than first thought and would not allow money to be taken from bank accounts.
The embattled telecoms company said on Saturday that the cyber-attack, which took place on Wednesday, targeted its website and not its core systems.
“We do not store complete credit card details on the website; any credit card details that may have been accessed had a series of numbers hidden and therefore are not usable for financial transactions,” TalkTalk said.
The Metropolitan police cybercrime unit’s criminal investigation was continuing, it added.
3:30pm - 24/10/2015 - Latest Update
This cyber attack was on our website, not our core systems
We can confirm that we do not store complete credit card details on the website; any credit card details that may have been accessed had a series of numbers hidden and therefore are not usable for financial transactions eg 012345xxxxxx 6789
TalkTalk My Account passwords have not been accessed
We now expect the amount of financial information that may have been accessed to be materially lower than initially believed and would on its own not enable a criminal to take money from your account
The Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit criminal investigation continues
This cyber attack was on our website, not our core systems
We can confirm that we do not store complete credit card details on the website; any credit card details that may have been accessed had a series of numbers hidden and therefore are not usable for financial transactions eg 012345xxxxxx 6789
TalkTalk My Account passwords have not been accessed
We now expect the amount of financial information that may have been accessed to be materially lower than initially believed and would on its own not enable a criminal to take money from your account
The Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit criminal investigation continues
So, at most they could phone-scam people by saying the last four digits of your card number as 'proof' that they are genuine but then use distraction techniques to get you off guard and try to get you to read the full card number out to them.
Provided crucial information, like expiry date and three-digit security code was not in plain sight, in the stolen data then a scam caller has to work a lot harder, in the excuses department, to wheedle that out of you.
When a cold caller asks me a question, I just ask "why? Don't you know?". Things that really should be on their computer if they were genuine.
They don't like it up 'em!
Provided crucial information, like expiry date and three-digit security code was not in plain sight, in the stolen data then a scam caller has to work a lot harder, in the excuses department, to wheedle that out of you.
When a cold caller asks me a question, I just ask "why? Don't you know?". Things that really should be on their computer if they were genuine.
They don't like it up 'em!
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