TalkTalk paid its CEO an extra £1.8m in 2015

Dido Harding received 2.81m at a time when cyber-attack cost company 60m and 101,000 customers, annual report shows

TalkTalk paid its chief executive, Dido Harding, an extra 1.8m last year when the telecoms company suffered a cyber-attack that cost it 60m and 101,000 customers.

Baroness Harding received 2.81m for 2015, up from 1.05m the year before, the company's annual report showed. Her pay, including 550,000 salary, increased because of a 1.97m payout under TalkTalk's long-term incentive plan (LTIP). The payment covered TalkTalk's performance from 2012 to 2015 and was half the maximum Harding might have received.