Talk Talk 'significant breach' could affect ALL customers

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[b]TalkTalk cyber-attack: Boss 'receives ransom email'[/b]

The head of TalkTalk says she has had an email demanding a ransom from a group purporting to be behind the cyber-attack suffered by the company.

Chief executive Dido Harding said she did not know whether the ransom email was genuine.

The phone and broadband provider said personal and banking details of up to four million customers may have been accessed in the "significant" attack.

The Met Police said the email was "forming part of its investigations".

"It is hard for me to give you very much detail, but yes, we have been contacted by, I don't know whether it is an individual or a group, purporting to be the hacker," Ms Harding told the BBC's business editor Kamal Ahmed.

"All I can say is that I had personally received a contact from someone purporting - as I say I don't know whether they are or are not - to be the hacker looking for money."

The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera said government sources had told him they currently viewed the Talk Talk incident as cybercrime, rather than anything relating to national security.

'Worry and concern'

TalkTalk said it was too early to know exactly who had been affected by the attack, which happened on Wednesday.

Former customers of Talk Talk may also be affected by the computer hack, and it was not known whether the information seized by the hackers was encrypted, Ms Harding added.

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Talk Talk 'significant breach' could affect all customers

The details of up to four million people's credit card and bank accounts could have been stolen in what has been described as a "significant and sustained" attack on the TalkTalk website.

The broadband and phone provider says customers' names, dates of birth, addresses and phone numbers may also have been accessed and has urged all of its customers to check their accounts for any suspicious activity.

The Metropolitan Police's Cyber Crime Unit has started an investigation after the attack.

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