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| Police have made a second arrest in relation to the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. | Police have made a second arrest in relation to the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. |
| A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Feltham, west London, Metropolitan police said on Friday. He was released on bail until a date yet to be confirmed. | A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Feltham, west London, Metropolitan police said on Friday. He was released on bail until a date yet to be confirmed. |
| The arrest came days after a 15-year-old boy was arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack, which prompted warnings from the phone and broadband provider that the bank details and personal information of its 4 million customers may have been accessed. | |
| The Northern Ireland teenager was arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, police said. He was taken into custody at a County Antrim police station on Monday, while a search of his address was undertaken. | |
| Police confirmed officers also carried out a search at a residential property in Liverpool in connection with the cyber-attack. Inquiries by the Met’s cybercrime unit and officers from the National Crime Agency, the British equivalent of the FBI, continued on Friday. | |
| The first boy arrested, from Northern Ireland, was known to like the Call Of Duty video game which simulates warfare, neighbours said. He was described by residents as a “quiet boy” who moved to the area recently with his family. | |
| TalkTalk was targeted in a cyber-attack a week ago. The company said bank account numbers and sort codes may have been accessed. | |
| But it stressed that criminals would need more information to enable them to take money from a customer’s bank account, and said the chances of achieving this was “very small indeed”. | |
| The TalkTalk chief executive, Dido Harding, said she was still unsure how many of its 4 million UK customers had been affected by the attack. | |
| The latest breach was the third in a spate of cyber-attacks affecting TalkTalk in the last eight months, with incidents in August and February resulting in customers’ data being hacked. | The latest breach was the third in a spate of cyber-attacks affecting TalkTalk in the last eight months, with incidents in August and February resulting in customers’ data being hacked. |