Users fear yet another hack as TalkTalk services go down TalkTalk is down again, with frighteningly little being said by the business as to why. A post on its official forums copped to the problem, apologising for the lack of services. The website at TalkTalk.co.uk has been replaced with a holding page, where the telco is informing visitors that the "Customer Service team are …
My email client been reporting outages like it was when TalkTalk was hacked. They denied all knowledge of any problems. and tried to get me to reset my emal client
What with pseudo BT spammers ringing me daily I've votied with my feet. Add to this they include your account number in full in their bill notification email for every hacker to harvest. A complete bunch of clowns who know liittle about protecting their customers data and care even less..
My email client has been reporting 'socket time outs". The last time it did this was just before the time of their web hack last year. I also lost my internet and email server connections for over 5 hours last week. TalkTalk blamed it on OpenReach. If you ring their service centre when you eventually get through you are transfered to their faults team immmediately you say what your prolem is. Then be prepared to wait ten minutes or more. Someone's either trying to hack them or they've been hacked! Thank heavens I'm eaving them!!
The bad weather must be a perfect storm - what with everything being reported as down at the same time
If they are lucky, they may get a phone call from that nice Indian sounding chap who knows how to fix the problems with our computer. Perhaps he can do the same for their systems ??
My home connection just went down twice in the space of 10 min, lasting about 5 min.
I Think somebody hit the reset switch somewhere (first time this has happened in 3 years or they did it in the morning lol).
I know this because ppl message me instantly when the service goes down lol
"Because he said something positive about a company that some people don't like?"
The BT pensioners always come out in force to attack TT.
In fact the problem, a flooded data centre, appears to have been resolved. My web stuff there is up and running again this morning.
"whats the chances that TalkTalk have taken their servers offline because of the TeamViewer hack?"
Actually, no. I'm not a customer but I did (in a round about way) report a fault to them in the latter half of last week: I sent an email to a Tiscali address, which got rejected because a TalkTalk MX somewhere between me and the destination - I send through my domain hosting company's mail servers - was blacklisted for spam.
This amused me because Carphone Warehouse bought Tiscali and rolled it into TalkTalk before offloading them, making Tiscali is part of TalkTalk, so I commented about it on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, the people that do their Twitter feed caught wind of it and quizzed me on the details, then said they'd pass it to their email team for investigation.
So they've probably taken the whole network down to get that MX de-listed.
from http://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Current-Known-Service-Issues/bd-p/service
"Due to severe weather conditions some of our systems are currently unavailable which means we may not be able to assist you when calling also the following websites are currently unavailable:
Talktalk.co.uk
Talktalk webmail
Help2.talktalk.co.uk
talktalk.co.uk/contactus"
note - POP/IMAP servers are down as well
and
"As you may know we've had some adverse weather and flooding in the east of England. This has led to service issues for customers of communications providers (TalkTalk, Sky, BT and others). The amount of time it takes to fix faults can vary depending on the type of weather and the impact on the network. In this case the damage is all across the network, both above and below ground."
Feckwits. Jumped ship 5 days ago !!! (yes, I know, I know; what took me so long)
Nevertheless: bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho and a good dose of Tee hee hee hee ha ha ha guffaw >choke< >snort< >splutter< as well
Yeah, shoulda been StalkStalk (remember that phorm DPI bolux they pulled).
Shoulda changed that to BalkBalk (when they got CaughtCaught) but refused to take responsibility.
Nowadays they should just be called HawHaw, coz now they just laugh at all their customers.
"You what, you want me to resign? Haw Haw haw haw haw - You're kidding right? Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm Dido Harding mush and don't you fucking forget it you disgusting little pervert, yes I know what kinds of things you like to watch, and so does Dave now, coz I'm telling him at the Bilderbergers. What was that you were saying about me resigning? That's right, now fuck off. Haw haw haw haw".
It's fitting if nothing else.
Fortunately I was not affected by this recent outage (outrage), so I couldn't possibly comment on the matter.
"Just had a bloke on the phone, Dave, demanding my resignation. Can you believe the brass fucking balls of some people, Dave?"
"I know, they still don't get it do they. I just tell them to fuck off myself, or rather, pay someone else to do it, Dido."
Both in unison: "Some day soon these fuckers are gonna realize just who is running this fucking planet and no mistake, mwahhhaaa haw haw haw."
I posted this on the TalkTalk Members forum and after a spat about it with TalkTalk toady forum member got myself banned from the forum for 48 hours and the thread was deleted/removed.
The trouble is that TalkTalk and its sycophantic staff and forum toadies just cannot stand the justified criticism of this totally incompetent company.
Anyone who listened to Baroness Harding of Winscombe's explanations about the TalkTalk data breach(es) and about TalkTalk's level of care / concern / service must have realised TalkTalk has a CEO completely unconcerned that people pay her company for a service and have a reasonable expectation, protected by law, that the company will provide the contracted services and take care of personal data. If the announcements she made didn't make TalkTalk customers think "blimey there's something wrong here" then they presumably just don't care what TalkTalk does. These customers have voted with their feet to have TalkTalk continue to give privacy, security and service very low priority.
Eventually those with a little clue will leave, if they haven't already, and TalkTalk will be left with a userbase of content sheep who Just Don't Care.
TalkTalk seem to be having further problems all over the country. I can't access email from multiple hosts (I don't use TalkTalk's own email). Nor can I access many websites. All this when they've just announced price increases and are attempting to get customers to lock in to new 18 month contracts!
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