![]() We have now contacted all customers who have had financial details accessed, reiterating our advice on what to do to keep themselves safe. We believe we had a responsibility to warn customers ahead of having the clarity we are finally able to give today. It was a difficult decision to notify all our customers of the risk before we could establish the real extent of any data loss. TalkTalk said in its statement on Friday: Two teenage boys from Northern Ireland and West London have since been arrested in connection to the hack. TalkTalk's stock initially plummeted after it was hacked for a third time late last month following a "significant and sustained" cyber attack that was initially thought to be the work of Russian jihadists. TalkTalk's share price jumped over 6% on the news on Friday morning. 28,000 credit and debit card numbers were also taken, but TalkTalk says in all of these cases the numbers were obscured and the data was not kept with other identifying information like names and addresses. Out of this total, 15,656 customers had their bank account and sort code taken. The internet and phone provider said in a statement on Friday that just 156,959 people were affected by the hack, down from a previous estimate of 1.2 million and an initial assessment of 4 million. TalkTalk on Friday radically revised down the number of customers that were hit by a recent cyber theft of personal data. ![]()
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