Nerds face jail over TalkTalk hack

Two computer geeks today admitted hacking the website of telecoms giant TalkTalk in a massive data breach said to have cost the company £42 million in lost business. Connor Allsopp, 20, and Matthew Hanley, 22, were behind the plot to steal thousands of customers’ personal and banking details in October 2015, it can be revealed. TalkTalk was fined a record £400,000 for security failings which allowed customers’ data to be accessed ‘with ease’ in one of the biggest data breaches…