The suspected data breaches by few BPO staffers of Wipro in Kolkata is likely to impact the Bengaluru-based company’s relationship with the client TalkTalk for whom these employees were working for. The Kolkata police last week had arrested three employees of Wipro who were handling British telecom firm TalkTalk’s back-office operations out of India, on charges of stealing of customers’ data.
The recent arrest could be linked to the data breach that TalkTalk went through in October last year when around 157,000 of its customer data including their bank account details were stolen. "Following the October 2015 cyber attack, we have been conducting a forensic review to ensure that all aspects of our security are as robust as possible - including that of our suppliers," said a statement by TalkTalk published in British public broadcaster, BBC.