A 17-year-old boy has been arrested following a cyber security attack on TFL - which has involved the loss of customer details.
Names and contact details, including email and home addresses, as well as bank account numbers, have been accessed for around 5,000 customers.TFL said they noticed the suspicious activity on September 1 and are working with the National Crime Agency to solve the issue.However, the transport provider said there had been "very little impact" on customers so far.
We are doing all we can to protect our services and secure our systems and data."This could include bank account numbers and sort codes for a limited number of customers ." Shashi Verma, TfL's Chief Technology Officer, said:"The security of our systems and customer data is very important to us. We continually monitor who is accessing our systems to ensure only those authorised can gain access.
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