Two friends jailed for TalkTalk hack plot
Two friends have been jailed over their role in the 2015 hack of British telecoms firm TalkTalk.
Connor Allsopp, 21, and 23-year-old Matthew Hanley, both of Tamworth, Staffordshire, were jailed yesterday at the Old Bailey in London, after admitting their involvement in a data breach that saw the personal account data, bank account details, and sort codes of thousands of TalkTalk customers exposed.
The hack, which made front page news headlines as TalkTalk’s then-CEO Dido Harding attempted to defend the company’s sloppy security, was estimated to have cost the firm £77 million in lost business and saw them receive a record fine of £400,000 from the Information Commissioner’s Office. To TalkTalk’s shame its webpage were vulnerable to elementary SQL injection attacks, and software had been left unpatched for 3.5 years.
