TalkTalk

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/22/talk_talk_security_breach/

I'm glad I'm not a TT customer. Hope they and other ISPs learn from any
obvious mistakes made.

 

Based on the Reuters story it might be possible that the systems hacked
were in Bangalore. (See also recent issues with 'safe harbour' and the
USA).

<http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/uk-talktalk-tlcm-gp-
cyberattack-idUKKCN0SG2TR20151023>

 

Article makes no mention of Bangalore. How do you read that into it?

 

Why do they need reporting from someone in Bangalore, if not because at
least some of the story has come from there?

 

Perhaps because the story 'broke' overnight when that continent was
on-shift?

 

In message <>, at

The story broke yesterday.

 

It seems quite likely though. Their euphemistically named "customer
service" is all done in India, hence the customer records must be
accessible from there - and security standards there are notoriously low.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Doctor: I don't like the looks of your wife at all.
Husband: Me neither doc, but she's a great cook and really good with the
kids.

 

I bet you watch Homeland

 

That's a pretty tangential link.

At just around 10pm UK time, which makes it 3:30am in Bangalore. Not if
that makes it more on-shift.

More recent updates from Reuters have no reporting from Bangalore.

 

Very odd that Talk Talk still do not seem to know whether their data was
encrypted.

 

The fact they say they don't know, rather points to the answer to that
being no !

 

Curious then that if you ring PO Broadband CS - which is also TT - it
is answered by UK person in the UK.

 

Never heard of it - but I don't watch TV much - assuming it is on the TV?

 

Oh gods, no! Is it? I know the IP I get comes from an old Tiscali
(Italian for excrement) AS, which in turn used to be World Online but I
assumed the PO was a vISP using that address space, as so many do, and
their billing and such is done in-house.

 

ch4 Sunday night 9pm [ this latest series some hackers got hold of cia
files in Berlin]

 

I wonder if they believe that the company (-ies) doing their overseas
customer service have had several copies in use and some could be
unencrypted. They could be trying to identify all the places that had
access or copies.

 

I've just had an e-mail from TT (I checked the headers before getting it)
and it tells me to get a credit report.
On BBC news, Dido said that the customers would be given a years's free
access to credit reports - the e-mail mentions Noddle!

 

Noddle is free/was free before the TT thing, it gives a free credit
report monthly whist at the same time tries to market you with every
credit card/financial product going.

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...dit-card-details-medical-records-just-2p.html

(Other newspapers are available)

tim

 

as a matter of principle we should all be given free access to our credit
reports, all the time

the system should be paid for by the companies that **** up, not operated as
a profit making exercise by the credit agencies

tim