27th Oct 2015 06:22
LONDON (Alliance News) - Police arrested a 15-year-old boy in Northern Ireland over last week's cyberattack" on the TalkTalk website.
Scotland Yard has said officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), working with detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU), arrested the boy from a house in County Antrim Monday on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.
The identity of the suspect is not disclosed.
He has been taken into custody at a County Antrim police station where he will later be interviewed.
MPCCU detectives, the PSNI's Cyber Crime Centre (CCC) and the National Crime Agency launched a joint investigation after the TalkTalk website was hit by a "significant and sustained cyber-attack" last Wednesday.
The phone and broadband provider said there is a chance that data such as TalkTalk account information, Credit card details and/or bank details and personal information may have been accessed.
TalkTalk said its website was secure again and TV, broadband, mobile and phone services had not been affected by the attack.
TalkTalk, which has over four million UK customers, said it fears the cyber attack could affect all of its customers.
Copyright RTT News/dpa-AFX
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