Hundreds of thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office broadband users are knocked off the internet by cyber-attack that seizes control of their routers

The attack affected 100,000 Post Office customers on Sunday and up to 360,000 TalkTalk customers across the UK today. It used a piece of malware known as the Mirai worm.

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