We now expect the amount of financial information that may have been accessed to be materially lower than initially believed and would on its own not enable a criminal to take money from your account

So any tabloid headline about x having their account cleared our by hackers is unlikely to be due to the TT hack. Obviously the tabloids wont care about the facts though

The other information taken, If true, can potentially cause problems for years to come as mentioned in the TalkTalk cyber-attack sparks calls for new regulatory powers article.

Earlier in the week, experts had warned the information seized � including names, addresses, date of birth, and email address of some of its four million customers � could still prove invaluable to criminals.

�With this level of information, fraudsters can create new bank accounts or take out loans under an actual person�s name, causing problems for fraud victims for years down the road,� said Ryan Wilk, director with NuData Security.

All that info with the exception of the email address is available free from Companies House if you are director of a company.
....and lots of UK residents are - including me.
.....and I don't recall there being howls of outrages about all these people having their ID stolen and loans taken out in their names on a daily basis.

In reply to a post by zom22:

All that info with the exception of the email address is available free from Companies House if you are director of a company.

Only very recently.

But free from "copying" sources I agree.

Though the addresses are often either the trading address or the registered office (usually the accountant's) address.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 24-Oct-15 21:05:15)

LINK

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LINK

LOL

Paul

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

Technically incompetent ISP get hacked, who would have thought eh?

TalkTalk boss says their cybersecurity 'head and shoulders' above competitors

It's sounding less and less serious

Youtube statement from Dido Harding Baroness Harding of Winscombe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ENte820Ao

Edited by deleted (Mon 26-Oct-15 07:51:48)

No doubt she will be providing more soundbites today. With thousands of compensation claims to be investigated by TalkTalk, this story has only just started.

This is interesting, although might be old news:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/talktalk-hackers...