Prior to its disastrous 2015 mega hack, TalkTalk had told GCHQ that should an attack occur, its main focus would be to restore “online sports streaming”, according to the head of operations at the National Cyber Crime Unit. Speaking at the Cyber Security in Healthcare event in London, Mike Hullett said all the major telcos had been surveyed by the spooks prior to the hack that affected 157,000 TalkTalk customers’ personal details.

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