TalkTalk has announced a major breach that took place at networks of, and reportedly may lead to the interception of banking information of its customers by the hackers. For those who don't know, the company is a leading internet service provider in Britain. 
With one e-mail sent to its customers, the company reported that it had seen a sharp increase in malicious scams claiming to be from TalkTalk towards the end of last year. For this reason, the company created a page scam reporting, to protect its customers.
After research conducted, it discovered that some of its customers' details, such as their name, address, phone number and accounts, could have been leaked, the BBC reports.
The company said in a statement: "At TalkTalk we take the safety of our customers very seriously and we have taken many steps to keep our customers safe. As part of our ongoing security effort, we are constantly monitoring our systems and processes; after further research into these reports, we have now discovered that a limited amount of non-sensitive information about some of our customers could have been leaked. ”
"We want to reassure our customers that information such as bank account information is not sensitive and that TalkTalk corporate customers are not affected."
There is currently no public leakage through an underground forum, although the violation should have occurred since December of 2014, as reported by Guardian.
