Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-02-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: TalkTalk
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: TalkTalk admits to a major breach of user information, which may have led to some customers handing over bank information to hackers. Following an investigation it states some of its customer information, such as names, addresses, phone and account numbers could have been illegally accessed.