Graham Cluley | February 27, 2015
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TalkTalk, we need to have a serious talk...
Hackers have stolen the personal details of thousands of TalkTalk customers, and - in some cases - used them to scam further information such as sensitive banking information.
Yesterday, UK broadband and phone operator TalkTalk emailed customers to tell them that an investigation had uncovered that there had been a significant data breach involving a third party contractor which had legitimate access to customer account details.
As a result, customer account numbers, addresses and phone numbers had fallen into the hands of criminal fraudsters - who were then, in some cases, using them to make scam phone calls to TalkTalk users.
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Serious TalkTalk data breach leads to scam phone calls for customers
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