Talk Talk Hackers Demanded £80K in Bitcoin
Summary: TalkTalk, a British phone and broadband provider with more than four million customers, disclosed that intruders had hacked its website and may have stolen names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, account information, and credit card or bank details. Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the company received a ransom demand of approximately £80,000 in Bitcoin, with attackers threatening to publish customer data, and that the intrusion began with SQL injection punctuated by a denial-of-service attack that may have served as a distraction.
What's compelling: The database tied to the extortion appears related to at least 400,000 people who had recently undergone credit checks for new service, and a seller on the AlphaBay dark market using the nickname "Courvoisier" was promising to post TalkTalk customer data, including bank account numbers and sort codes.
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