{"id":10662,"date":"2015-11-25T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2015-11-25T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T07:55:33","slug":"uk-police-arrest-talktalks-suspected-ransom-demander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/uk-police-arrest-talktalks-suspected-ransom-demander.html","title":{"rendered":"South Wales Police Arrest TalkTalk&#8217;s Suspected Ransom Demander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in South Wales have arrested a fifth person in connection with last month&#8217;s cyber-attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>&#8217;s website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/talktalks-reputation-hit-after-hackers-try-to-steal-more-personal-data.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and interestingly the individual concerned was taken into custody on suspicion of blackmail.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 18 year old was arrested yesterday by the <strong>Southern Wales Regional Organised Crime Unit<\/strong> (SWROCU) as part of a raid on a property in <strong>Llanelli<\/strong> (South Wales) and was later taken to Dyfed Powys police station, although no further details have been released.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stand out moments from the incident came in October 2015 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>&#8217;s CEO, <strong>Dido Harding<\/strong>, confirmed that she had received an email demanding a ransom from somebody purporting to be behind the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It is hard for me to give you very much detail, but yes, we have been contacted by, I don&#8217;t know whether it is an individual or a group, purporting to be the hacker. All I can say is that I had personally received a contact from someone purporting &#8211; as I say I don&#8217;t know whether they are or are not &#8211; to be the hacker looking for money<\/em>,&#8221; said Harding to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was the result of a combined <strong>Distributed Denial of Service<\/strong> (DDoS) assault and later an <strong>SQL Injection<\/strong> exploit against the ISPs website. Many of those arrested so far have been boys under the age of 18, although most of those cases won\u2019t be heard until next year.<\/p>\n<p>Overall 156,959 of the broadband ISP&#8217;s customers were affected by the hack, mostly via a general loss of personal data, although 15,656 bank account numbers and sort codes were also accessed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/uk-isp-talktalk-now-says-only-156959-customers-affected-by-hack.html\" target=\"_blank\">details<\/a>). Since then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> has worked to beef up its website security and a Government Inquiry has also been launched (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/fourth-uk-person-arrested-in-connection-with-talktalk-isp-hack.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in South Wales have arrested a fifth person in connection with last month&#8217;s cyber-attack on TalkTalk&#8217;s website (here) and interestingly the individual concerned was taken into custody on suspicion of blackmail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[480,109,479,74,71],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-crime","tag-internet-privacy","tag-security","tag-talktalk","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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