TalkTalk chief Dido Harding paid €3.6m in year of cyber attack

The chief executive of UK telecoms company TalkTalk received £2.8m (€3.6m) in pay and share bonuses for the last 12 months, despite the company suffering a cyber attack in October that put the data of thousands of customers at risk.

Dido Harding, who received £550,000 in base pay, said she would donate her £220,000 annual cash bonus to charity following the hack on its business.

“Throughout the cyber attack, we worked hard to put our customers first, and we know that they have appreciated our efforts and our honesty throughout,” Ms. Harding - who has been CEO since 2010 — said yesterday.