Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, the story of a Russian bank robber who's also allegedly spying for Moscow.

These investigators sort of had this eureka moment of watching this and being like, wow, this isn't just a criminal enterprise.

This is an espionage operation as well. Also in the program, what should you do when your

business gets hacked? And it only takes one mistake for an organization to be compromised.

And so you are faced with an option. Do you have the capability to restore from backup?

And if you don't, you either don't function or you pay.

All that to come in Business Daily from the BBC.

The much publicized investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee computers during the U.S. election campaign last year

continues to haunt almost every aspect of American. Indeed, much of international politics at the

moment. Was Russia responsible for the attack? Well, the U.S. Secret Services say this is now beyond

doubt. More significantly, they're asking, did members of the

Trump campaign collude in Russia's actions? This is how President Obama first hinted at retaliatory

measures to be taken against Moscow last December. I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections,

that we need to take action, and we will at a time and place of our own choosing.

Some of it may be explicit and publicized.

Some of it may not be. But Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about

this because I spoke to him directly about it. Well, those measures included a range of sanctioned

institutions and people to intelligence agencies, for example, four senior intelligence officials,

35 diplomats, three tech companies. But they also targeted a man who was infamous in

tech security circles, known simply as Slavic. His real name is Yevgeny Mikhailovich Bogachev. The remarkable

story behind Bogachev's years spent hacking and compromising the servers of international banks, his apprehension,

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