Hacker takes down Copenhagen's bike-hire network and deletes database

Nicholas Fearn
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Weekend attack rendered bike-hire network useless

Copenhagen's bike network was rendered useless in a cyber attack over the weekend in which the hacker was able to completely wipe the network's database.  Officials claim that the attack happene...

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