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Adverts from broadband providers will soon have to show the average rather than the top speeds they offer, under new rules to take effect from next May.

More than 15 million British records were compromised by a hack earlier this year, Equifax has admitted.

Many broadband providers will be forced to give customers more accurate estimates of the speed they'll get before they sign up, under proposed new rules - and you'll have the right to walk away from your contract if speeds are slower than promised and don't improve within a month.

Update 11.15am: Since we published this story the technical issue now appears to have been resolved and cards are working normally.

Hackers may have accessed personal data from more than one billion Yahoo accounts during a 2013 cyber-attack, the internet giant has admitted – making it one of the largest data thefts ever.

A parliamentary report into last year's TalkTalk hack has called for more to be done to help people who have suffered at the hands of cyber criminals.

If you're searching online, beware – Google has increased the number of paid-for ads shown at the top of many search results, meaning on some smaller screens that's all you see without scrolling further down the page.

Millions of HSBC customers were locked out of their online accounts for two days after a major technical problem with its internet banking system.

Millions of broadband and landline customers should find it easier to switch providers from tomorrow, communications regulator Ofcom says .

TalkTalk broadband, TV and home phone customers are to be hit with price hikes from 1 June, and the provider is scrapping free local calls for 200,000 users from 1 July.