by Maija Palmer
Sometimes a hack is obvious. When Sony Pictures
employees arrived at work on the morning of November 24 2014 they found their
computers were inoperable and the screens displayed a creepy-looking red skull
with the message: “Hacked by #GOP”.
More often, attacks are harder to recognise. For
TalkTalk, the UK telecoms company that discovered on October 21 2015 that it
had been hacked, the truth sank in much more gradually. Dido Harding, the chief
executive, explained in a television interview two days later that by
“lunchtime all we knew was that our website was running slowly and that we had
the indications of a hacker trying to attack us”.
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