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 men have pleaded guilty to breaching TalkTalk's site in 2015 and illegally obtaining customer data files, which they later tried to sell. Matthew Hanley and Conner Douglas Allsopp were charged under the under the Computer Misuse Act, and will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 31 May. TalkTalk was fined £400,000 ($515,000) by the Information Commissioner's Office, who called the data breach an "avoidable security blunder."