The whistleblower at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal on Tuesday revealed to the British parliament that an Israeli intelligence gathering firm, Black Cube was involved in a hacking scheme targeting President Muhammadu Buhari.

Christopher Wylie has alleged that Cambridge Analytica harvested details of 50 million Facebook users and used the material in US President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign by micro-targeting users with campaign material.

Wylie who was the company’s former research director, testified before a House of Commons committee investigating the misuse of Facebook user data, revealing some of the other the shadowy activities the company was linked to.

“The company utilized the services of an Israeli private intelligence firm, Black Cube,” Wylie told lawmakers according to reports in British media.

He said the Tel Aviv-based company was hired to “hack the now-president Muhammadu Buhari to get access to his medical records and private emails.”



According to Wiley, Cambridge Analytica also contracted its subsidiary company, AggregateIQ, to use the data obtained by Black Cube to spread anti-Muslim videos on Facebook in an effort to damage Buhari’s presidential campaign.

Buhari was elected as the president of Nigeria following his success at the 2015 polls despite the alleged smear campaign against him.

Wiley indicated that Cambridge Analytica sought to influence elections in other developing countries on a regular basis, with little to no concern for local or international law.

“They could care less as to whether or not their work is compliant because they like to win,” he said.

But election rigging was not particularly profitable, so, Wiley said, Cambridge Analytica made its real money by introducing top government officials to African businessmen in what he dubbed a “privatized colonizing operation.”

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the whistle blower may be arrested if care is not taken....

useless revelation, pmb has won and he will win again.