A BBC report says that a 15-year-old year boy, who was
arrested in connection with the TalkTalk, a phone and broadband provider,
attack in which banking details and personal information could have been
accessed, has been released on bail.
The boy had been "bailed to a date in November",
the report says.
The boy was arrested in Northern Ireland on suspicion of
Computer Misuse Act offences. The Metropolitan Police said he was taken into
custody at a County Antrim police station and was being questioned by
detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The company, which has over four million UK customers,
informed that Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit, Police Service of Northern
Ireland Cyber Crime Centre and National Crime Agency have been investigating the
significant and sustained cyber-attack on the its website.
But credit and debit card numbers had not been stolen, it
said.
“News that the TalkTalk website had been hit by a
"significant and sustained cyber-attack" broke last week,” the news
report read.
Cyber security consultant and former Scotland Yard detective
Adrian Culley told BBC Radio that a Russian Islamist group had posted
online to claim responsibility for the attacks.
“He said hackers claiming to be a cyber-jihadi group had
posted data which appeared to be TalkTalk customers' private information -
although he stressed their claim was yet to be verified or investigated,” the
report adds.
Dido Harding, chief executive of the TalkTalk group, told BBC
News the authorities were investigating and she could not comment on the
claims.