内容摘要：A young Bruce Springsteen fan from North Lanarkshire became the envy of millions when she got to play a harmonica duet with the star during his gig at Anfield Stadium.

A young Bruce Springsteen fan from North Lanarkshire became the envy of millions when she got to play a harmonica duet with the star during his gig at Anfield Stadium.

The email confirms for the first time the link between M&S's hack and the, which DragonForce have also claimed responsibility for.

The two hacks - which began in late April - have wrought havoc on the two retailers. Some Co-op shelves were left bare for weeks, while M&S expects its operations to be disrupted until July.Although we now know that DragonForce is behind both, it is still not clear who the actual hackers are.DragonForce offers cyber criminal affiliates various services on their darknet site in exchange for a 20% cut of any ransoms collected.

Anyone can sign up and use their malicious software to scramble a victim's data or use their darknet website for their public extortion.Nothing has appeared on the criminal's darknet leak site about either Co-op or M&S but the hackers told the BBC last week that they were having IT issued of their own and would be posting information "very soon."

Some researchers say DragonForce are based in Malaysia, while others say Russia. Their email to M&S implies that they are from China.

Speculation has been mounting that a loose collective of young western hackers known as Scattered Spider might be the affiliates behind the hacks and also one on Harrods.IPCO began its secret investigation into MI5's handling of the agent - a genuine neo-Nazi known publicly as X who informed on extremist networks – in 2022.

, known publicly as "Beth".MI5 had told me he was an agent in 2020 while trying to stop me running a news story about the man's extremism. I had already heard he was an agent, also known as a covert human intelligence source (Chis), and told MI5 as much.

The calls were an attempt by MI5 to protect and cover for X, a violent misogynistic abuser with paedophilic tendencies. Telling me he was an agent was inconsistent with MI5's public claims about always abiding by a core secrecy policy – known as neither confirm nor deny (NCND) – on the status of agents.But the Security Service maintained it had stuck by the NCND policy - first in a court case where the government tried to prevent the BBC from publishing a story about X, and then in two further courts where Beth made a claim against MI5.