Daniel Kelley, 22, from Llanelli, south Wales, appeared at the Old Bailey in May after pleading guilty to 11 hacking-related offences. The disgruntled student joined a group of cyber criminals who carried out the data breach in October 2015. These included hacking with intent, six counts of blackmail, encouraging hacking, offering to supply data in connection with fraud, and possession of articles for fraud. Kelley hacked into TalkTalk and blackmailed Baroness Harding of Winscombe and five other executives for Bitcoin, the court heard. However, Kelley's sentence was delayed as he was facing trial for a separate hack that was committed whilst he was on bail for the Talk Talk offences.

Source: Daily Mirror June 10, 2019 14:57 UTC