Exclusive: Hacker took over BBC server, tried to 'sell' access on Christmas Day
BOSTON (Reuters) - A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system.
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