TalkTalk offers free upgrade and takes £35m cyber attack hit

Telecoms firm TalkTalk said it will take a hit of up to £35m (€49.3m) from last month’s cyber attack and announced a free upgrade for all its customers.

The group said it was making the move in “recognition of the unavoidable uncertainty” customers faced after hackers accessed the details of 156,959 customers and 15,656 bank account numbers.