Thanks to Talk Talk Hackers I'm going to be changing passwords all weekend

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UK members will be all too well aware that one of the country's biggest internet and mobile phone suppliers has suffered a catastrophic hacking attack leaving 4 million or more of us without answers about whether or not our data has been stolen or whether it was properly encrypted. Sadly I had an account and I had another 4 or 5 years ago. If they have the details on my current broadband account, I'm not TOO worried - it's linked to a very specific bank account and it should be very apparent if anything happens there. More worrying would be if they had to old account details. I figure that the hackers shouldn't be able to do too much damage without additional personal data. For instance none of the passwords for my bank accounts are the same as the password on my Talk Talk account. Most people who seem to have been defrauded have been tricked into giving additional information. But none the less, I'm spending a lot of time tracking down various websites where I've used the same password and changing those passwords. It's a heck of a pain in the butt to have to do it, especially since I have no idea what data may have been stolen. Talk Talk are handling the whole thing very badly indeed. Sadly I signed up with them quite recently and paid a year's phone line in advance so I don't really have the option to walk away. Anyone else affected by the hack? Or by other high profile hacks like this?