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Names, addresses, bank details, credit card numbers, 4 million customers may have had their data stolen by hackers after what the British telecoms firm TalkTalk is calling a significant and sustained attack on its computer systems. It's the latest in a long line of high-profile cyber attacks. Other targets have included US customers of T-Mobile, the US retailer Target and the online dating site Ashley Madison. It's not yet clear who carried out this latest attack but the chief executive of TalkTalk Dido Harding told the BBC's business editor Kamal Ahmed she had received an email demanding the payments of a ransom.
If you're a cyber criminal the days of stealing data and then selling it for cash in the dark web but they're not so profitable as they used to be. And I do think you see more cyber criminals wanting to effectively make money by sort of extorting the companies that hold that data and there have been a number of instances of that just this week.
Has any communication like that come to you since this attack started on Wednesday?
Obviously I'm sorry to keep repeating, it is hard for me to give you very much details but yes we have been contacted by I don't know whether it's an individual or a group purporting to be the hacker. | 
发表于 2016-10-24 17:31:43