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TalkTalk hack: Police arrest second teen

bbc.co.uk

4 points by m1k3r420 10 years ago · 1 comment

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celticninja 10 years ago

The fact that the 2 arrested individuals are teenagers is all you need to know about the complexity of the attack on Talk Talk.

This was a script kiddy attack, no more no less, a lot of people claimed responsibility from ISIS to chancers requesting ransoms but ultimately this was due to talk talk having incredibly poor security. That they have recently been hacked a few times just confirms that they are a soft target with lots of customers data.

The fact these kids are kids is not the defining reason this was a simple attack, there are some smart kids out there, but I imagine anyone with some decent skills would have obfuscated their tracks enough to not get caught. These are the LHF of hacks.

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