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Police are investigating a "significant and sustained cyber-attack" on the TalkTalk website, the UK company says.

The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million UK customers, said banking details and personal information could have been accessed.

TalkTalk said potentially all customers could be affected but it was too early to know what data had been stolen.

TalkTalk cyber-attack: Website hit by 'significant' breach - BBC News

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TalkTalk faces new questions of 'cover up' over cyber attack

Perhaps if they'd made it as difficult to obtain sensitive customer data as it is for customers to actually speak with customer services, this wouldn't have happened.