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WhatsApp hit by cyber attack

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The messaging service is used by 1.5 billion people

We look into the case involving the hacking of the instant messaging service WhatsApp.

We hear why students have managed to get a professor at Harvard removed from one of his jobs because he's working as a defence lawyer for Harvey Weinstein.

We speak to Nicole Smith-Holt who’s become an advocate for affordable insulin after her son died from complications linked to type 1 diabetes.

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