US to investigate ransomware attack

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President Biden has ordered US intelligence agencies to investigate a sophisticated ransomware attack, which is thought to have hit hundreds of American businesses. Hackers broke into the system of the technology provider Kaseya and used its tool to distribute a malicious update to its customers. We hear more from Emma Green, founder of Green CDL a cyber and data protection consultancy. One of the world's richest men, Jeff Bezos, will stand aside as chief executive of Amazon on Monday; we get analysis from Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and Amazon Unbound. Meanwhile, in Hungary the government has reversed a controversial plan for a Chinese university to build a campus in Budapest. Objections were raised after it emerged the construction work would be reserved for Chinese companies and funded by banks in China; we hear from Yojana Sharma, Asia Editor of University World News. (Photo: hacker on laptop via Getty Images).