UK's TalkTalk says cyber attack could affect 4 million customers - Reuters

LONDON Britain's TalkTalk said a "significant and sustained" cyber attack on its website could involve the theft of private data from all of the broadband supplier's more than 4 million customers. "Investigation is ongoing but unfortunately there is a chance that some of the following data has been compromised: names, addresses, date of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, TalkTalk account information, credit card details and/or bank details," the company said in a statement late on Thursday.

Chief Executive Dido Harding said it was too early to know exactly what data had been stolen, but the company wanted to contact all customers as quickly as possible so they could monitor their accounts.

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