Many people are quite upset that telecoms firm TalkTalk recently fell victim to a hacker who relieved it of hundreds of thousands of customers’ personal details. However I am, in a way, quite pleased. I’ve nothing against TalkTalk, for whom the whole episode has been highly unfortunate, and I have sympathy for those customers affected. But how events panned our afterwards actually provide crumbs of comfort.
The incredible media coverage the attack received is welcome. There can be few people in Britain who are unaware that TalkTalk had a problem. This is extraordinary, because TalkTalk is just the latest to fall victim to something that is going on all the time. In fact, just days later Vodafone admitted it had suffered a breach of its own. For the full article click here
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