TalkTalk profits leap 200% a year after damaging cyber attack

By Metropolis & Finance Reporter for the Each day Mail

Revealed: 03:32 EST, 16 November 2016 | Up to date: 03:34 EST, 16 November 2016

TalkTalk boss Dido Harding believes prospects have extra belief within the telecoms group after its damaging cyber assault final 12 months.

Harding mentioned being 'open and sincere' had helped regain the belief of shoppers, 95,000 of whom jumped ship following the incident which occurred simply over a 12 months in the past.

It noticed almost 157,000 prospects' particulars hacked and greater than 15,600 checking account numbers and kind codes stolen. Yesterday a 17-year-old boy admitted seven hacking offences, together with these towards TalkTalk, at Norwich Youth Courtroom.

Belief points: TalkTalk boss Dido Harding believes prospects have extra belief within the telecoms group after its damaging cyber assault final 12 months

It got here because the agency posted half-year outcomes which revealed revenue had jumped 200 per cent to £42million for the six months to September 30.

Income was down 1.1 per cent to £902million, however this was as a result of a fall in prospects following the assault.

Harding mentioned classes had been discovered, including: 'Now we have spent extra on our programs, however because the cyber criminals' ladders are getting longer so our partitions must get larger.'