In 2015, U.K. phone and broadband provider TalkTalk was hacked, and nearly 157,000 customer accounts were breached. Late last week, the company was fined a record £400,000 (nearly $500,000) from the national data protection agency. The company announced initially that four million customers may have been affected, but this estimate proved high. Two teenage boys were arrested shortly
TalkTalk Hit with Record Fines
October 10, 2016
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