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TalkTalk shows us the internet is only three clicks from anarchy

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29 October 2015

9:00 AM

29 October 2015

9:00 AM

I’m not a customer of TalkTalk, the phone company which revealed last week that a hacker had potentially compromised the personal data of four million users. But I feel I’m on the front line of the cyberwar nevertheless. In August, someone unknown to me tried to spend £1,200 at House of Fraser on my credit card account.

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