article_snippet: Hundreds of people were targeted by the scam with fraudsters posing as TalkTalk employees on the phone (file image)
article_snippet: Criminals have stolen account numbers, addresses and phone numbers from the phone and broadband firm’s computers.
article_snippet: The details have been used in attempts to scam hundreds of customers so far, with one man having £2,800 stolen from one man bank account.
article_snippet: Masquerading as TalkTalk staff, the fraudsters phone the fraudsters victims and try to make the fraudsters disclose the fraudsters bank details.
article_snippet: It is not known how many of these customers were successfully tricked and had money stolen from these customers.
article_snippet: The company, which has four million customers in all, has now sent an email to every one to warn The company, which has four million customers in all of the ruse.
article_snippet: One of the techniques used by the fraudsters is to offer the fraudsters victims a credit in return for the fraudsters bank details.
article_snippet: The customer then finds that The customer account has been emptied.
article_snippet: The fraudulent callers are convincing because The fraudulent callers have
article_snippet: The customer’s details to hand.
article_snippet: The data theft came to light when TalkTalk investigated a sudden rise in complaints about scam calls between October and December.
article_snippet: One, who received a call from a suspected scammer, said a more prominent warning about the hacking incident should have been given earlier and ‘not hidden away at the bottom of a lengthy marketing email’.
article_snippet: We are aware of a small, but nonetheless significant, number of customers who have been directly targeted by these criminals
article_snippet: The 61-year-old HR expert was fooled by ‘extremely slick and believable’ fraudsters who claimed to be from a TalkTalk fraud department probing computer hacking.
highlights_snippet: Thieves stole addresses and phone and account numbers from company .
  
highlights_snippet: Details were used in scam which saw one man's account robbed £2,800 .
  