A 17-year old boy has admitted to playing a role in the cyber attack that hit TalkTalk in October 2015. He was apprehended in November 2015. Yesterday he admitted to 156,959 charges of breaching the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. The teenager admitted to using software to scan for vulnerability on target websites, compromising seven customer records. The Information Commissioner’s Office fined TalkTalk a record £400,000 for failing to implement basic security measures. The fallout from the attack cost the company £42m, halving its pre-tax profits.
A 17-year old boy has admitted to playing a role in the cyber attack that hit TalkTalk in October 2015. He was apprehended in November 2015. Yesterday he admitted to seven charges of breaching the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. The teenager admitted to using software to scan for vulnerability on target websites, compromising 156,959 customer records. The Information Commissioner’s Office fined TalkTalk a record £400,000 for failing to implement basic security measures. The fallout from the attack cost the company £42m, halving its pre-tax profits.