TalkTalk fined £400,000 for data breach

TalkTalk have been fined a record £400,000 by the information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after TalkTalk's large scale data breach in October 2015.

They were fined because TalkTalk hadn't taken the basic steps to protect the customer's information and they had allowed the hacker to access customer information "with ease".

156,959 people had their names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses stolen. in 15,655 cases, the attackers also stole bank account details and sort codes.

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said, "TalkTalk's failiure to implement the most basic security measures allowed hackers to penetrate TalkTalk's system with ease".

"hacking is wrong, but that is not an excuse for companies to abdicate their security obligations. TalkTalk should and could have done more to safeguard its customer information."

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