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Even so, for the investors and analysts who, for months, had made clear they wanted Musk off his phone and back at work, the situation is far from ideal.Some though argue the problems for Musk's businesses run much deeper than this spat - and the controversial role in the Trump administration it has brought a spectacular end to.

For veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher, that is especially so for Tesla."Tesla's finished," she told the BBC on the sidelines of the San Francisco Media Summit early this week."It was a great car company. They could compete in the autonomous taxi space but they're way behind."

Tesla has long attempted to play catch-up against rival Waymo, owned by Google-parent Alphabet, whose driverless taxis have traversed the streets of San Francisco for years - and now operate in several more cities.This month, Musk is supposed to be overseeing Tesla's launch of a batch of autonomous robo-taxis in Austin, Texas.

He posted to X last week that the electric vehicle maker had been testing the Model Y with no drivers on board.

"I believe 90% of the future value of Tesla is going to be autonomous and robotics," Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives told the BBC this week, adding that the Austin launch would be "a watershed moment".Nothing has appeared on the criminal's darknet leaksite about either Co-op or M&S but the hackers told the BBC they were having IT issues 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.In the early stages of the M&S hack, unknown sources told cyber news site Bleeping Computer that evidence is pointing to Scattered Spider.

has confirmed to the BBC that the group is one of their key suspects.As for the hackers I spoke to on Telegram, they declined to answer whether or not they were Scattered Spider. "We won't answer that question" is all they said.