What are the details of the other 2 hacks? I know about them but not research them

Talk Talk are probably limited to what they can say as its a police investigation. Tabloid papers will print what they want (some of it pure speculation to sell papers). Talk Talk have actually come out pretty quickly about this. Usually its days later before a company goes public on a hack

Covered to some extent in the video clip I recommended earlier.

Taken from the "TalkTalk hacking crisis deepens as more details emerge" article:

"It is the company�s third major security breach in the last year. In December 2014 customers received India-based scam calls after the first breach. It happened again in February, with TalkTalk customers being subject to further scams despite the company describing the information that was stolen in the breach as limited and non-sensitive.

The information commissioner, who is already investigating the previous two security breaches, criticised TalkTalk for taking more than 24 hours to tell his office what had happened. Christopher Graham told BBC Radio 4�s World at One: �I wish we had heard a little bit earlier and we could have been more �out there� giving advice to consumers about what they need to protect their personal information.�

Probably get a slap on the wrists by the ICO.

Maybe the Chinese will buy them out

You think they may have a yen for it?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

The video clip in this article is worth listening to.

I will be really interested to see how many customers they allow to break their contracts and leave penalty free because I suspect they'll do their damnedest to sweep this under the carpet and maintain the contracts - that's what they did to customers in the data breach at the beginning of the year.

In reply to a post by MHC:

I have just heard Dido Harding on R4. She was asked "Can you confirm that customer data was encrypted". She refused to answer that it had been. Make of that what you will.

All I can say is I work in IT security and I do a lot of the security work which goes into firms being PCI (Payment Card Industry) certified... 99% of firms are using windows server 2003 and have customer details in clear text format. I have found bank details of customers in some of the largest retailers, stored in .txt files.

You say banks are better, ermm.... ok.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 24-Oct-15 02:14:58)