Jail for computer geeks behind £77m TalkTalk hack

Two computer geeks who hacked the website of telecoms giant TalkTalk in a massive data breach costing the company £77m in lost business were jailed today (mon). Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew Hanley, 23, were behind the plot to steal thousands of customers’ personal and banking details in October 2015. TalkTalk was fined a record £400,000 for security failings which allowed the data to be accessed ‘with ease’ in one of the biggest data breaches in history. The majority of…