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UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack (reuters.com)

Posted by timothy on from the upping-the-average-age dept.

An anonymous reader writes: British police have made a third arrest in connection with a cyber attack this month on telecoms company TalkTalk, in which the company said bank details of more than 20,000 customers were hacked. We mentioned the first of the three arrests on Monday; a second arrest took place Thursday, as related by Ars Technica, of a 16-year-old from west London. The latest arrest is of a 20-year-old from Staffordshire.

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  1. Re:And I care why? by 91degrees · · Score: 3, Informative

    British Internet and mobile phone company.

    Quite a large one. Lots of customers. We'd really expect a company this size to be able to resist some teenage script kiddies. The nature of the breech means that a lot of customer details have been compromised.