UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway

TalkTalk is investigating forum claims by a user named "b0nd" who alleges a dataset containing customer information (subscriber PINs, names, emails, last access details, IP addresses, and phone numbers) was extracted from a third-party supplier's system; the company says investigations are ongoing, no billing or financial data were stored on the impacted system, and the asserted scale of ~18.8 million records appears greatly overstated and unconfirmed.