Dr. Glenn Lipson has certain articles he shares as he has time to read them and then decides to share, this one is from the UK.on Oct. 30, 2015, it is about the hacking of the UK broadband provider called TalkTalk.
Police arrested a second teenage boy in London on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 over a cyberattack on UK broadband provider TalkTalk.
Per CNET TalkTalk was subject to the “significant and sustained cyberattack” last week, and warned its 4 million customers that their data may have been left exposed.
The 16-year-old from Feltham, arrested in west London on Friday, has been released on bail after his address and another address in Liverpool were searched in connection with the crime, London’s Metropolitan Police said.
The Lond”s Metro Police statement said, “On Thursday, 29 October, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) executed a search warrant at an address in Feltham. At the address, a 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences… A 15-year-old boy from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was arrested on Monday, 26 October, by officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), working with detectives from the Cyber Crime Unit on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.”
TalkTalk has been subject to three cyberattacks in the last year, revealing the extent to which hackers are pursuing companies that hold millions of people’s personal data. When these attacks are successful, customers are left powerless to control who has access to personal information, such as bank account details. The companies’ share prices take a major hit.
This is especially true if some of that data has not been encrypted, as was the case in the latest TalkTalk hack. The company has reassured customers that debit and credit card details have not been accessed in the attack, but has warned people to look out for any unusual activity regarding their bank accounts.
The Metropolitan Police, of London UK, investigation was launched with the help of the National Crime Agency and the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Cyber Crime Centre. TalkTalk has hired BAE Systems to undertake its own investigation.
By Glenn S Lipson, PhD
Nov. 1, 2015
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