{"id":22412,"date":"2018-03-22T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=22412"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:00:12","slug":"22412-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/22412-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cambridge Analytical Got Buhari\u2019s Hacked Emails\u2019\u2026 As Facebook Says Users\u2019 Data Secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Tayo Olanipekun<\/p>\n<p>As the Cambridge Analytical scandal continues to plague Facebook, with President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly one of the victims of data theft before the 2015 elections, founder of the social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company has \u201ca responsibility to protect\u201d and will guard users\u2019 data.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on his personal Facebook page on Wednesday night, the CEO affirmed that \u201cif we can\u2019t then we don\u2019t deserve to serve you,\u201d as he spoke for the first time after his company\u2019s audit of an alleged mishandling of data.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian and Observer of UK had reported how senior directors of Cambridge Analytica gave its staff instructions to handle materials provided by computer hackers in election campaigns in Nigeria and St. Kitts and Nevis.<\/p>\n<p>The newspapers said the research firm had been hired by a Nigerian billionaire to support the reelection of former President Goodluck Jonathan, having been paid about \u00a32m to campaign against his rival, Buhari, who was then in the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Guardian, member of the campaign team said the material they believed had been hacked included Buhari\u2019s medical records.<\/p>\n<p>It also reported the Israelis brought a laptop from their office in Tel Aviv and handed Cambridge Analytical employees a USB stick containing what they believed were hacked personal emails.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>However, Zuckerberg noted, in outlining the measures his organization is taking, that \u201clast week, we learned from The Guardian, The New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica may not have deleted the data as they had certified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the doubt made Facebook immediately ban the research firm from using any of the social media giant\u2019s services, even as he said they are now working with regulators \u201cas they investigate what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described the \u201cbreach of trust\u201d between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook as also \u201ca breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tech whizz kid admitted it would take \u201clonger to fix all these issues than we&#8217;d like,\u201d but assured users that Facebook will \u201cwork through this and build a better service over the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tayo Olanipekun As the Cambridge Analytical scandal continues to plague Facebook, with President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly one of the victims of data theft before the 2015 elections, founder of the social media giant, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company has \u201ca responsibility to protect\u201d and will guard users\u2019 data. 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