Monday, October 26, 2015

Northern Ireland teenager arrested for hacking attack on TalkTalk – BBC Russian

Police Service of Northern Ireland have arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of complicity in the carrying out of a hacker attack on one of the country’s largest telecommunications company TalkTalk.

Teen taken into custody after a search of the the house where he lives. Police are questioning.

Messages that company’s website attacked by hackers, appeared last week. The TalkTalk, which subscribers are more than four million Britons do not exclude that the result could be stolen personal data. After the start of the investigation in the police said that the attacker presumably younger than it seemed initially.

Over the past year and a half TalkTalk several times becomes the target of hacker attacks.

Last October representatives TalkTalk announced that as a result of another hacking hackers could obtain the personal data of four million subscribers of the operator.

In response, the Institute of Directors of London, combining a number of influential businessmen in Britain, urged the government to immediately send forces to combat hackers. The institute stressed that the only serious break-ins are reflected in the media, while the small leaks occur constantly.

The government reaffirmed its determination in the fight against cybercrime in October the British Ministry of Internal Affairs has allocated 860 million pounds ( $ 1.3 billion) for the implementation of a national cybersecurity program.

According to Google, which every day criminals commit two thousand attacks on the Internet. Fighting hackers costs the world economy 460 billion dollars annually.

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