内容摘要：He has actually won two La Liga titles, as he played once as a 15-year-old in 2022-23.

He has actually won two La Liga titles, as he played once as a 15-year-old in 2022-23.

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.Scattered Spider is not really a group in the normal sense of the word. It's more of a community which organises across sites like Discord, Telegram and forums – hence the description "scattered" which was given to them by cyber security researchers at CrowdStrike.

Some Scattered Spider hackers are known to be teenagers in the US and UK.The UK's National Crime Agency said inabout the retail hacks, that they are focusing investigations on the group.

who declined to answer whether or not they were Scattered Spider. "We won't answer that question" is all they said.Two of them said they wanted to be known as "Raymond Reddington" and "Dembe Zuma" after characters from US crime thriller The Blacklist which involves a wanted criminal helping police take down other criminals on a blacklist.

In a message to me, they boasted: "We're putting UK retailers on the Blacklist."

There have been a series of smaller cyber attacks on UK retailers since but none as impactful of disruptive as those on Co-op, M&S and Harrods.Its director Alison Fendley says that without a dedicated forensic service, police forces were currently suffering from a lack of resources and expertise at a local level.

"Police forces have got lots of other things to do - archiving is not their day job and there's so much material coming and going it must be difficult to keep on top of," she says.Meanwhile, backlogs at courts, the growth in online crime and the increase in digital evidence such as body worn video are all adding to a growth in the amount of exhibits police have to keep.

The NPCC said police and the CPS worked together to ensure evidence was "gathered and presented in a timely manner, bringing offenders to justice and ensuring victims are safeguarded".It said the data obtained by the BBC refers to all evidence that is either missing or unavailable when a defendant is going to trial after being charged.