Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy, a, from London in connection with the high-profile hack of British telecoms giant TalkTalk. The teenager was arrested at his home in Norwich on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences. TalkTalk was subjected to a’significant and sustained’ hacking attack on its official website two weeks back, which put the Bank Details and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of its 4 Million customers at risk. The telco confirmed last week that at most 1.2 million names, email addresses and phone numbers and around 21,000 unique bank account numbers and sort codes were compromised in the attack.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/11/talktalk-hacker.html