hacking
TalkTalk[1], one of the biggest
UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal
information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more
than 156,000 customers.
Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both from Tamworth
in Staffordshire, were sentenced Monday to 12 months and 8 months
in prison, respectively, after they admitted charges relating to
the massive breach that cost TalkTalk £77 million in losses.
The total cost also included the massive £400,000
fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on
TalkTalk for failings to implement the most basic security measures
in order to prevent the hack from happening.
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At the Old Bailey, the judge Anuja Dhir described Hanley as a
“dedicated hacker” and sentenced him to 12 months in prison;
whereas, Allsopp gets 8-months prison for his lesser role in the
cyber attack.
The Judge also said that it was a tragedy to find “two
individuals of such extraordinary talent,” Daily Mail reported.
[3]
“Given the scale of the attack, the number of people whose
confidential information was stolen and then passed on to others,
I’m sure that your actions caused misery and distress to many
thousands of the customers of TalkTalk,” Dhir added.
21 in 2015 and stole personal and banking details of 156,959
customers. He then passed the stolen information on to his friend
Allsopp, who later sold the data to another online user for fraud.
The stolen information included customers’ full names, postal
addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, email addresses, and
TalkTalk accounts information, and in almost 16,000 cases, the
attackers also accessed financial information.
Another hacker, Daniel Kelley, 21, was arrested, charged and
pledged guilty in 2016, for obtaining the stolen data of TalkTalk
customers and blackmailing the company’s then-CEO, Dido Harding, in
an attempt to extort 465 Bitcoins.
“Your actions, the actions of others, resulted in the then-CEO of
TalkTalk being subjected to repeated attempts to blackmail her for
money. You were not personally involved in making those attempts,
but your actions helped facilitate it,” Judge Dhir told Hanley and
Allsopp.
including a 15-year-old
boy[4] from Northern Ireland, a
16-year-old
boy[5] from west London, and
another
16-year-old[6] from London, were
arrested for their alleged role in hacking and blackmailing the
telecom company.
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