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Asahi has not confirmed the nature of the attack on its operations but has said data suspected to have been leaked in the hack had been found on the internet.

He wrote to his parents: “This issue seems to me to amount to whether I am really going to try to write in my life, or just be an elegant hack.”

All begins sunnily, however, in the year 1899, when Evelyn, a self-confessed hack writer of travel books, with one failed novel to his name, marries an American heiress.

Mr. Fox was aware, he says, that he was a mere “sitcom hack.”

That poise disappears when he starts talking about a popular hack in the world of amateur marathoning.