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A teenager has admitted to seven hacking charges, two of the charges belongs to the TalkTalk data breach in October 2015.
For legal reasons the name of the teenager has not been published,has been pleaded guilty to all seven offenses under the Computer Misuse Act at Norwich Youth Court. He targeted Cambridge and Manchester University's website before using hacking tool software to identify TalkTalk’s vulnerabilities.
He posted the details of the hack online as a result, TalkTalk lost £60 million affecting 157,000 customers, their details stolen, including bank account numbers, sort codes, and dates of birth. And the worst was that the chief executive was blackmailed via email.
He will be sentenced on 13 December for also Manchester University Library and Cambridge University Library, and much more.
According to Sky News, he told the court: "I didn't really think of the consequences at the time. I was just showing off to my mates."
Chris Brown, who soften his case,told the court that vulnerabilities in the TalkTalk had been in talks before this and this was not solely his fault, “what happened at TalkTalk lies solely at his door”.
"That vulnerability was seized upon by someone who a matter of days previously had found a way of hacking another type of business," said Mr Brown. "That company had its customer database seized, those customers were threatened with requests for money so their details weren't sold on the dark web, and the company was asked to pay a ransom to prevent that happening.
"That's not [the teenager]. That's someone acting completely apart from him. That person used the vulnerability in TalkTalk days later to demand things and emailed the chief executive of TalkTalk with similar blackmail efforts."
For legal reasons the name of the teenager has not been published,has been pleaded guilty to all seven offenses under the Computer Misuse Act at Norwich Youth Court. He targeted Cambridge and Manchester University's website before using hacking tool software to identify TalkTalk’s vulnerabilities.
He posted the details of the hack online as a result, TalkTalk lost £60 million affecting 157,000 customers, their details stolen, including bank account numbers, sort codes, and dates of birth. And the worst was that the chief executive was blackmailed via email.
He will be sentenced on 13 December for also Manchester University Library and Cambridge University Library, and much more.
According to Sky News, he told the court: "I didn't really think of the consequences at the time. I was just showing off to my mates."
Chris Brown, who soften his case,told the court that vulnerabilities in the TalkTalk had been in talks before this and this was not solely his fault, “what happened at TalkTalk lies solely at his door”.
"That vulnerability was seized upon by someone who a matter of days previously had found a way of hacking another type of business," said Mr Brown. "That company had its customer database seized, those customers were threatened with requests for money so their details weren't sold on the dark web, and the company was asked to pay a ransom to prevent that happening.
"That's not [the teenager]. That's someone acting completely apart from him. That person used the vulnerability in TalkTalk days later to demand things and emailed the chief executive of TalkTalk with similar blackmail efforts."
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