600k customer identities have been stolen in 2014 and according to government officials thousands of Britons data available for sale in the DarkWeb. Data stolen from government databases include personal tax and social security data. The huge quantity of information that is fueling the black markets come from numerous data breaches occurred in the last months. The revelations come a week after the clamorous data breach suffered by the TalkTalk firm, the UK Metropolitan Police arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses a 15-year-old alleged involved in the attack.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/41546/cyber-crime/uk-stolen-identities-darkweb.html