Most probably, Rhysida, the hacker gang that orchestrated the attack and is thought to be Russian, had already been creeping undetected through the digital territories of the British Library for months, Enrico Mariconti, a lecturer in security and crime science at UCL, told me.
Eventually, after the British Library refused to pay a 600,000 ransom, the hackers published close to 500,000 files of what they called exclusive, unique and impressive stolen data for anyone to download for free through the dark web.
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