Around four million TalkTalk customer's personal information may have been accessed by hackers after a sustained attack on the firm's infrastructure. The company has confirmed that some of the data was not encrypted, scmagazineuk.com reports.
The attack led to parts of the website becoming inaccessible to customers, namely the sales system and “My Account” areas of the website where customers can order services and access their own account details.
Speaking on Radio4 this morning, Dido Harding, group chief executive of phone and broadband provider TalkTalk confirmed that potentially all of its four million plus customers could be affected by a cyber-attack and data breach in which banking details and personal information could have been accessed.
Harding said that it was too early to know what data had been stolen, commenting: «Potentially it could affect all of our customers, which is why we are contacting them all by email and we will also write to them as well.»
