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TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data | TechCrunch

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A hacker claims to have stolen the personal data of more than 18.8 million TalkTalk customers.

The data allegedly includes customer names, email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers and PINs.

TalkTalk confirmed it is investigating the data breach, but said the figure was "very significantly overstated".

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