Matthew Hanley, 23, in addition to Connor Allsopp, 21, both from Tamworth inwards Staffordshire, were sentenced Mon to 12 months in addition to 8 months inwards prison, respectively, after they admitted charges relating to the massive breach that terms TalkTalk £77 1000000 inwards losses.
The sum terms likewise included the massive £400,000 fine imposed past times the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) on TalkTalk for failings to implement the most basic safety measures inwards gild to foreclose the hack from happening.
At the Old Bailey, the guess Anuja Dhir described Hanley every bit a "dedicated hacker" in addition to sentenced him to 12 months inwards prison; whereas, Allsopp gets 8-months prison theater for his lesser business office inwards the cyber attack.
The Judge likewise said that it was a tragedy to observe "two individuals of such extraordinary talent," Daily Mail reported.
"Given the scale of the attack, the pose out of people whose confidential information was stolen in addition to and then passed on to others, I'm certain that your actions caused misery in addition to distress to many thousands of the customers of TalkTalk," Dhir added.Hanley broke into the company's website betwixt Oct sixteen in addition to 21 inwards 2015 in addition to stole personal in addition to banking details of 156,959 customers. He in addition to then passed the stolen information on to his friend Allsopp, who afterward sold the information to or thus other online user for fraud.
The stolen information included customers' sum names, postal addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, in addition to TalkTalk accounts information, in addition to inwards most 16,000 cases, the attackers likewise accessed fiscal information.
Another hacker, Daniel Kelley, 21, was arrested, charged in addition to pledged guilty inwards 2016, for obtaining the stolen information of TalkTalk customers in addition to blackmailing the company's then-CEO, Dido Harding, inwards an testify to extort 465 Bitcoins.
"Your actions, the actions of others, resulted inwards the then-CEO of TalkTalk existence subjected to repeated attempts to blackmail her for money. You were non personally involved inwards making those attempts, simply your actions helped facilitate it," Judge Dhir told Hanley in addition to Allsopp.
In the weeks next the TalkTalk breach, several teenagers, including a 15-year-old boy from Northern Ireland, a 16-year-old boy from westward London, in addition to another 16-year-old from London, were arrested for their alleged business office inwards hacking in addition to blackmailing the telecom company.
