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Bit of a smoke screen, looking at what they definitely did capture for some people ...

Email address
Title
First name
Last name
Date of birth
Telephone number
Town
County
Postcode
House number
Street name

Bank name
Account holder name
Bank account number
Bank sort code

Will you be taking them up on thier offer?

https://help2.talktalk.co.uk/noddlealerts

Somewhere else to store all your info to be hacked...or am I getting Paronoid???

Yes, I have signed up with noddle - which is free anyway, talktalk are paying for the alerts service from them.

Beware though, noddle's business model is to make you paranoid and to buy or advertise other products, I opted out the 3rd party and marketing emails and they have been true to their word, but the website looks like times square with ads.

Noddle already know everything about you, you give very little info compared to what they tell you. Near enough everybody is on their books because they are a credit checking service.

I was surprised to see how many insurance companies have done checks on me and how often!

Thanks for the info DD,I'll give it a go.

You should listen to this weeks moneybox on radio 4 and here what customers say.

There saying on the news this morning people are treating to be changed £200 for wanting to leave talk talk.

Wrong, so wrong. .

Tried Noddle,apparently thier site is down too???

What a difficult decision for talktalk - to pay the ransom money or not. £80,000 is a pretty trivial amount of money to them but there is no guarantees that paying it will achieve anything however it could save them an awful amount of money.

There is also the knock-on effect that paying it will encourage more cyber-terrorist activities like this.

This has been brought on by governments allowing the internet to be a ghetto, freedom and society are not easy bed-fellows - you can't have total freedom to do as you like if you also want to be part of a decent society.

The internet is one of the most wonderful things developed in recent times but it will be proven to be the worlds worst nightmare if it is not adequately regulated.

TalkTalk is set to face devastating losses of £75 million as the fallout from the cyber-attack on the network continues.
Last week, it was revealed that a group of Russian jihadist hackers had broken into the company’s computers and accessed the personal data and bank details of customers, with one expert likening it to ‘the Great Train Robbery of the 21st century.’
Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, former Metropolitan Police detective Adrian Culley said: ‘It is the Great Train Robbery of the 21st century.
‘There is a potentially huge liability for TalkTalk as a result of this. Future compensation payments could put them out of business.’


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/25/talkt...-after-devastating-cyber-attack-5461454/

Inside knowledge saw the company sell its shares off just before they dipped 10% mid week. Many already knew what was happening early last week but declined to comment.

As a talk talk fund manager informed me!

I don't think they would be daft enough to pull a stunt like that, it would be more stupid than that robber who handed over his own bank account details.