Hackers appear to have stolen credit card data from British provider

Criminals who cracked the systems of the British provider TalkTalk last week most likely got their hands on customer data. It also appears to include credit card data. The data was partly unencrypted.

London’s Metropolitan Police Cyber ​​Crime Unit launched an investigation on Thursday into the hacking of TalkTalk’s systems, the provider reports. That hack took place on Wednesday after a denial-of-service attack on the provider’s site. There are still very few details about the hack.

The company says there is a chance that names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, account information, and credit card and bank details have been stolen. If a company mentions that opportunity after a hack, it is usually the case that that data is indeed in the hands of the criminals. At least some of the data was stored unencrypted on the systems, TalkTalk admits.

It is not known how many customers were affected by the burglary. TalkTalk has a total of four million customers in the UK. A group called “TalkTalk hackers” has posted a report on PasteBin containing a sample of the stolen data.

According to the BBC, there were multiple DDO attacks on British companies on Wednesday. There would also be connections with extortion, where the hackers would demand payment in bitcoins. The BBC does not provide details on this.