This report was first published as a three-part podcast series. On 12 May 2017, employees in Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica came under attack. Their computer monitors displayed a disturbing message: their files had been scrambled and to get them back they would have to pay the hackers who’d infected them. Telefonica wasn’t alone. The virus…
Criminals directed unwitting TalkTalk customers to a webpage where they were told they could claim a compensation payment by logging into their bank.
21,000 TalkTalk customers had their data stolen. A gang of professional fraudsters created an industrial-scale fraud network to con them. This is the inside story of how the scam worked. The hacking of TalkTalk in October 2015 propelled the company into the headlines. But in reality, it wasn’t the cyber attack that hurt the company’s…
Geoff White 