TalkTalk fined £100,000 over data protection law breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined the telecoms giant after an investigation into access of the company’s database portal.
TalkTalk has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after the telecoms giant was found to have placed personal data from 21,000 customers at risk.
An ICO investigation found the company breached data protection laws after staff from an IT firm working with TalkTalk were able to access large amounts of customer data through an online company portal.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said: “TalkTalk may consider themselves to be the victims here.
“But the real victims are the 21,000 people whose information was open to abuse by the malicious actions of a small number of people.
