Washington: Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in 2016 US election on Wednesday. Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the UK-based firm’s hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users, told a Senate panel he believes Russian intelligence services had access to data harvested by the consultancy.
Wylie told the panel that Russian-American researcher Aleksandr Kogan was working at the same time on Russian-funded projects, including “behavioral research..