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Talktalk Gets Ransom Demand After Hit By Cyber Attack


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A spotlight shines on a company logo at a TalkTalk building in LondonBy Paul Sandle and Eric Auchard LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - British broadband provider TalkTalk said on Friday it had received a ransom demand from an unidentified party claiming responsibility for a cyber attack that may have led to the theft of personal data from its more than 4 million customers. The data could include credit card and bank details, and if the theft is confirmed by a police investigation it would be one of Britain's biggest online security breaches. "We have been contacted by, I don't know whether it is an individual or a group, purporting to be the hacker," TalkTalk Chief Executive Dido Harding told the BBC.




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