" Two Tamworth employees have pleaded guilty to using TalkTalk 's site in 2006 and illegally obtaining customer data files , which they later tried to sell . Matthew Hanley and John Douglas Allsopp were charged under the under the Computer Misuse Act , and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 31 May. Each was fined £ 400,000 ( $ 515,000 ) by the Information Commissioner 's Office , who called the data breach an " avoidable security blunder . "
Two Tamworth employees have pleaded guilty to using TalkTalk 's site in 2006 and illegally obtaining customer data files , which they later tried to sell . Matthew Hanley and John Douglas Allsopp were charged under the under the Computer Misuse Act , and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 31 May. Each was fined £ 400,000 ( $ 515,000 ) by the Information Commissioner 's Office , who called the data breach an " avoidable security blunder . "