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27th Oct 2015

15-year-old Irish kid arrested after hacking massive UK telecoms company TalkTalk

He was taken into custody on Monday

Joe Harrington

And we have trouble remembering our Facebook password.

UK telecommunications company TalkTalk was hit by a significant cyber attack earlier this month and a teenager from Antrim has been arrested in connection with the crime.

The 15-year-old was taken into custody on Monday after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police cyber crime Unit, the PSNI and the British National Crime Agency.

It’s thought that the hacking was a major security breach of TalkTalk and that the personal information and bank details of an unknown number of their four million customers may have been accessed.

The boy was was released on bail today pending further inquiries and the investigation into the incident will continue in the coming days.

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