Cyberattack Cuts Off Thousands of TalkTalk, Post Office Customers in UK

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Cyberattack Cuts Off Thousands of TalkTalk, Post Office Customers in UK

By CircleID Reporter
December 01, 2016, 11:15 pm PST Views: 12,117 Add Comment

Thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office customers in the UK have had their Internet access cut by an attack targeting certain types of Internet routers, according to a BBC report on Thursday. “A spokeswoman for the Post Office told the BBC that the problem began on Sunday and had affected about 100,000 of its customers. Talk Talk also confirmed that some of its customers had been affected, and it was working on a fix. It is not yet known who is responsible for the attack. It involves the use of a modified form of the Mirai worm.” Last week Germany’s Deutsche Telekom reported close to a million of its customers had lost their internet connection as a result of the attack. Mirai was also involved in the historic October attack disrupting world’s leading websites.

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