Chris Vallance reports:
When Russia’s most notorious hackers hired servers from a UK-registered company, they left a trove of clues behind, the BBC has discovered.
The hackers used the computers to attack the German parliament, hijack traffic meant for a Nigerian government website and target Apple devices.
The company, Crookservers, had claimed to be based in Oldham for a time.
It says it acted swiftly to eject the hacking team – dubbed Fancy Bear – as soon as it learned of the problem.
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