Mischievous hackers have breached the IT systems of the UK’s biggest fishing gear outlet, redirecting customers of its online store to an X-rated website. Angling Direct, which as well as selling fishing equipment online has around 40 stores across the country, announced on the London Stock Exchange that it first detected unauthorised activity on its network “late on Friday 5 November 2021.” Missing an obvious opportunity to refer to the hackers as “highly sofishticated,” Angling Direct said that it did not believe any customers’ financial details had been accessed by the intruders:

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