TalkTalk customers urged to change Wi-Fi passwords after details stolen from faulty routers

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5 December 2016  By  Cara McGoogan
 
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Tens of thousands of TalkTalk customers are at risk of having had their passwords stolen after it was revealed that a hack against the company's broadband infrastructure was more severe than initially thought.
 
The cyber attack, which left some Post Office and TalkTalk customers without internet for days last week, also involved up to 57,000 of TalkTalk’s customers having their Wi-Fi passwords stolen, according to a security expert. 
 
Ken Munro, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners, said passwords had been stolen from the faulty routers, which could give cyber criminals access to all of the information on customers' home networks, including further passwords and financial details. 
 
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