TalkTalk Customers Warned After Major Security Breach

TalkTalk, one of the UK's largest phone and broadband providers, has warned its customers that their personal information may have been hacked in major cyber crime.

TalkTalk is warning its customer base of 4 million users that their account information, names and addresses and credit card and banking details may be compromised after its website was hacked in a major security breach. Although TalkTalk is currently working with the Metropolitan Police's cyber crime unit, this is not the first time the company's data has been hacked this year.

Dido Harding, Chief executive at TalkTalk, said:

"TalkTalk constantly updates its systems to make sure they are as secure as possible against the rapidly evolving threat of cyber crime, impacting an increasing number of individuals and organisations.

"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. As a precaution, we are contacting all our customers straight away with information, support and advice around yesterday's attack."

Earlier this year, in February, TalkTalk warned its customers about scammers after thousands of account names and numbers were stolen and in August there was another personal data breach, this time on the company's mobile sales site.

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