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| TalkTalk said the website had been taken down as soon as it had noticed "unusual activity" |
Police are investigating a "significant and sustained cyber-attack" on the Talk Talk website, the UK Company says.
The phone and
broadband provider, which has over 4 million UK clients, said banking details
and personal information, could have been accessed.
Talk Talk said
potentially all consumers could be affected but it was too early to know what
data had been stolen.
The Metropolitan
Police said no-one had been arrested over Wednesday's attack but inquiries were ongoing.
Talk Talk said in a statement that a criminal investigation had been
launched on Thursday.
It said there was a
chance that some of the following customer data, not all of which was
encrypted, had been accessed:
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Names and addresses
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Dates of birth
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Email addresses
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Telephone numbers
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Talk Talk account information
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Credit card and bank details
Dido Harding, chief
executive of the Talk Talk group, told Media News its website was now secure
again and TV, broadband, mobile and phone services had not been affected by the
attack.