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15-year-old arrested in investigation over TalkTalk hack

article published on 27 October, 2015

The UK Metropolitan Police have arrested a 15-year-old today in connection with the major cyberattack on TalkTalk. Earlier this week, TalkTalk's website was hacked and names, addresses, account information and credit card/bank information were stolen from possibly 4 million customers. It appears that TalkTalk was hit by a DDoS attack that gave the attackers time to use SQL injection hacks. ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		28. October 2015 @ 15:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well as I see this.........TalkTalk needs to be severely punished and this kid LESS PUNISHED because of them storing creds in plain text!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone should be thanking this punk kid for stumbling on this...albeit through nefarious means.
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