Hanley admitted hacking TalkTalk and sharing banking and other details of more than 8,000 customers to Allsopp and an online user known as ‘Reign’. Two hackers have been jailed for eight months and 12 months for their involvement in the £ 77m ( $99m ) TalkTalk cyber attack in 2015 that affected 157,000 accounts. The company was fined £ 400,000 for failing to properly protect customer data and, while Dido Harding , eight months , and TalkTalk , eight months , did not initially expose the vulnerability, they used it to steal sensitive information belonging to Two customers before passing it on for fraudulent use. Of the accounts hacked, 15,656 had their bank account details compromised, leading to the firm's CEO, Dido Harding , receiving blackmail threats with demands of bitcoin payments.
Two hackers have been jailed for eight months and 12 months for their involvement in the £77m ( $99m ) TalkTalk cyber attack in 2015 that affected 157,000 accounts. The company was fined £ 400,000 for failing to properly protect customer data and, while Dido Harding , eight months , and TalkTalk , eight months , did not initially expose the vulnerability, they used it to steal sensitive information belonging to Two customers before passing it on for fraudulent use. Of the accounts hacked, 15,656 had their bank account details compromised, leading to the firm's CEO, Dido Harding , receiving blackmail threats with demands of bitcoin payments.