TalkTalk hack: 16-year-old boy from Norwich is fourth to be arrested

Sooraj Shah
clock

Unnamed 16-year-old has since been bailed along with three others

A 16-year-old boy is the fourth to be arrested in connection with the hack of internet service provider TalkTalk. The boy was arrested yesterday, as detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
University CIO: 'We were owned in 4 hours'

Threats and Risks

And that certainly focused minds, says Salford University’s Mark Wantling

clock 20 March 2024 • 5 min read
Cambridge University hit by DDoS attack

Hacking

Anonyous Sudan claims it also hit the University of Manchester

clock 20 February 2024 • 1 min read
Law enforcement takes down LockBit - updated

Security

NCA among the groups under 'Operation Cronos'

clock 20 February 2024 • 2 min read

More on Police

Government urges police to step up facial recognition

Government urges police to step up facial recognition

Glosses over technology's controversies

Vikki Carley
clock 31 October 2023 • 2 min read
European police move in on DoppelPaymer

European police move in on DoppelPaymer

Gang known for causing first death linked to ransomware

Tom Allen
clock 07 March 2023 • 2 min read
Interpol breaks business email compromise centres

Interpol breaks business email compromise centres

Agencies in 76 countries arrested 2,000 people and recovered millions of dollars.

Tom Allen
clock 17 June 2022 • 2 min read