In May 2020, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that Dido Harding was to be put in charge of the "Track, Test and Trace" effort as part of the UK government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic..
In October 2015, TalkTalk experienced a "significant and sustained cyber-attack", during which personal and banking details of up to four million customers is thought to have been accessed.[10] City A.M. described her responses as "naive", noting that early on when asked if the affected customer data was encrypted or not, she replied: "The awful truth is that I don’t know". Her "inflexible line" on termination fees was also criticised.[11] Marketing ran a headline, "TalkTalk boss Dido Harding's utter ignorance is a lesson to us all".[12] The Evening Standard noted that "It has been a tough week for TalkTalk boss Dido Harding, facing complaints from customers and calls for her head."[13] The company admitted the hack had cost it £60 million and lost it 95,000 customers.
Dido Harding :In May 2020, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that Dido Harding was to be put in charge of the "Track, Test and Trace" effort as part of the UK government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic..In October 2015, TalkTalk experienced
In October 1995, she married John Penrose, MP for Weston-super-Mare, who was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010–2012, and in 2015 became Minister for Constitutional Reform.
The couple met whilst working at McKinsey, have two daughters, and live in London during the week and Somerset at the weekend.[23]
Harding is a horse racing enthusiast. A member of the Jockey Club, in 1993 she borrowed £7,000 from her bank to buy an Irish thoroughbred hoping to ride it in ladies' point-to-point races. In 1998, her horse Cool Dawn won the Cheltenham Gold Cup.[24][25]
Dido Harding: In October 1995, she married John Penrose, MP for Weston-super-Mare, who was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010–2012, and in 2015 became Minister for Constitutional Reform. The couple