Two scrotes who hacked the TalkTalk website have been jailed.

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Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both from Tamworth in Staffordshire, admitted their roles in the massive 2015 data breach which affected 1.6 million accounts.

Hanley was jailed for 12 months and Allsopp for eight months. (LINK)
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Excellent; but inadequate prison sentences.

I hope the other eight people also get caught. This hack and the subsequent release of account details opened the floodgates to all sorts of extortion scams. Anyone caught should be made personally liable for the costs any victim suffered.
 
stockhausen said:
Excellent; but inadequate prison sentences.

I hope the other eight people also get caught. This hack and the subsequent release of account details opened the floodgates to all sorts of extortion scams. Anyone caught should be made personally liable for the costs any victim suffered.
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Apparently the presiding judge stated they were people of "incredible talent". Which is presumably how an aging, knows nothing about computer security person describes a SQL-injection attack. These two caused considerable harm, it's clearly criminal (ransom demands usually are!) and I don't have a lot of sympathy with them (though I don't know how much good prison will do). But still, it rankles to see any implication that TalkTalk weren't incompetent. Basic security errors, unencrypted passwords stored, concealment of the fact people's data had been stolen. If Dido Harding (or Queen of Carnage as The Register rather neatly called her) hadn't been a politically well-connected baroness, they'd have kicked her out asap. And they should have.
 
If certain banker dudes can get away with running the likes of Lehmans into the ground costing many hundreds of billions in the process and deeply damaging social fabrics, then i don't get it.
 
h4rm0ny said:
Apparently the presiding judge stated they were people of "incredible talent". Which is presumably how an aging, knows nothing about computer security person describes a SQL-injection attack. These two caused considerable harm, it's clearly criminal (ransom demands usually are!) and I don't have a lot of sympathy with them (though I don't know how much good prison will do). But still, it rankles to see any implication that TalkTalk weren't incompetent. Basic security errors, unencrypted passwords stored, concealment of the fact people's data had been stolen. If Dido Harding (or Queen of Carnage as The Register rather neatly called her) hadn't been a politically well-connected baroness, they'd have kicked her out asap. And they should have.
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I take your point about Harding. It is amazing that on leaving Uni she progressed rapidly through McKinsey, Thomas Cook, various major supermarket companies to end up as CEO of TalkTalk, she should have been put on unpaid gardening leave immediately and sacked without compensation as soon as it became clear how incompetent she was.

I'm sure that the NHS will see massive improvements under Dodo's stewardship and that patient records will be absolutely safe.

However, I do believe that there will have been other (techy) people at TalkTalk who would probably be more safely employed as refuse collection operatives.

Time spent remembering not to bend over in the showers is probably pointless but allowing the mindless scrotes who released the customer details into the public domain to walk free with just a slap on the wrist is hardly going to be a disincentive to others.
 
stockhausen said:
What a strange comment.

I'm pretty sure that many of the people who work at TalkTalk will feel much the same about you.
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I always find it strange when that line is trotted out, as if to be a sort of capitalist socialism, that they the worker was remotely important.

Until TalkTalk stop being ghetto in their policies, i'll never give them money.
 
stockhausen said:
I take your point about Harding. It is amazing that on leaving Uni she progressed rapidly through McKinsey, Thomas Cook, various major supermarket companies to end up as CEO of TalkTalk, she should have been put on unpaid gardening leave immediately and sacked without compensation as soon as it became clear how incompetent she was.

I'm sure that the NHS will see massive improvements under Dodo's stewardship and that patient records will be absolutely safe.

However, I do believe that there will have been other (techy) people at TalkTalk who would probably be more safely employed as refuse collection operatives.

Time spent remembering not to bend over in the showers is probably pointless but allowing the mindless scrotes who released the customer details into the public domain to walk free with just a slap on the wrist is hardly going to be a disincentive to others.
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I don't disagree. My comment was a direct response to the judge describing them as exceptionally skilled. More like script kiddies with a lot of free time. TalkTalk made a series of basic and amateur mistakes.

As to Dido, Queen of Carnage being let loose on the NHS, well, frankly I'll just have to pray I never get ill.
 
They need to start hiring these types of people, if they have genuine skill.

Most of the college courses I went on didn't really teach anything about modern programming and definately nothing about hacking.

TalkTalk in particularly have had repeated breaches of security. It's about time they started to take the issue seriously.
 
StriderX said:
I always find it strange when that line is trotted out, as if to be a sort of capitalist socialism, that they the worker was remotely important.

Until TalkTalk stop being ghetto in their policies . . .
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Do you have an English translation of that piece (or pieces) of wisdom?


BowdonUK said:
. . . TalkTalk in particularly have had repeated breaches of security. . . .
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Really? More than one?
 
Talk Talk nearly gave my elderly grandfather a nervous breakdown and their hounding of him after he wanted to cancel was bordering on harassment imo. I can't feel sorry for them whatsoever and I swore off them myself when I had my own place at university (no end of problems).
 
talk talk sponsored the X-factor for 10 years, that alone is reason enough for them to deserve a full collapse.
 
TacticalFish said:
The real crime here is using TalkTalk...
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I agree. Despite their high charges, BT is the only reliable ISP and landline provider.

BowdonUK said:
This was another breach by them hiring low quality Indian call centres: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39177981
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Actually a result either of an Indian company to which TalkTalk outsourced call-centre support or of the hacking by British scrotes.
TalkTalk customers are being targeted by an industrial-scale fraud network in India, according to whistleblowers who say they were among hundreds of staff hired to scam customers of the British telecoms giant.
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As I say, use BT and NEVER use any company that outsources support, especially to India.
 
stockhausen said:
Anyone caught should be made personally liable for the costs any victim suffered.
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What about people who give out their own information through phishing scams and similar? Would they be personally liable for their own subsequent losses?
 
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