UK MPCUU is making headway in its TalkTalk investigation

Oct 30, 2015 12:32 GMT  ·  By

Three days after arresting a 15-year-old in Northern Ireland, British Police arrested a second suspect, a 16-year-old teen living in Feltham, a suburb in London's South-West side.

Besides the teenager's Feltham home, a second address was also raided in Liverpool, where police suspected further evidence to be found.

While many people at first believed that the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) got their man on Monday, after the first arrest, the second arrest has split most people into two camps.

There are those who think the police is blindly arresting anyone that has even the slightest involvement with the case and a history of cyber-crime, and that those believe that this is the work of a large and organized hacking group.

Taking into account the "friendly" laws the GHQC and local British police have at their disposal in monitoring Internet traffic and intruding into people's privacy, it is not surprising that the MPCCU is making arrests left and right so quickly after the incident took place.

The TalkTalk hack happened last week, and it allowed attackers to steal the data of over 4 million TalkTalk customers.

This is the third time TalkTalk has got hacked this year, after having previously suffered two more data breaches in February and in August, when it lost personal data of around 10 million of its clients.