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One of the most significant disruptions of the cyber-criminal world. That’s what an operation to take control of Lockbit has been described as. The criminal organisation, thought to be based in Russia, hacked into companies’ computers and locked users out until they paid them money. Now Lockbit has been locked out of its own website after a UK-led operation.

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???? takedown - the removal of something from the internet; defeat
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