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The russians were able to obtain data of americans that were used in some of the targeting for some of the ads on facebook and other social media. the question is how does this data accessed by the russian company, what happens to it? people we have talked to, former and current officials in the u.s. government, tell us that that is exactly how it works. that companies like mail.ru required to provide access to russian intelligence. and so, this is the question. what happened to that data? once ...

Very interested. >> big data is the secret today to intelligence. and if the russians who are very good at this have access to a pot of big data, i wouldnt be surprised if they used it. >> reporter: mail.ru had access to american users personal information at a time when russia was launching its disinformation campaign through facebook and other social media. and began to meddle in the 2016 u.s. election. wolf, in a statement to cnn this afternoon, mail.ru is claiming user data was neither share...

Step of fundamentally changing how the platform works. >> when mark zuckerberg told the congressional committee that facebook shut down apps that gathered users personal information. did he not mention had this. 61 app developers that facebook now says were given an extension. the ability to keep gathering data from facebook users for up to an additional six months. among them, the russian internet giant, mail.ru, which ran hundreds of apps on facebook. what does that mean to you? michael carpen...

Information and your friends, included a russian internet firm with links to vladimir putin and the kremlin. that means that if you were on facebook before 2015, your name, gender, birthday, location, photos and page likes were all available to the companys that ran the apps. mail.ru is controlled by usm holdings, a company founded by russian billionaire. the u.s. treasury department lists a having ties to the kremlin. mail.ru had the ability to use facebook to harvest u.s. data 32 apps and game...

With its facebook apps and said, that its one of the top five largest internet companies in the worl has built apps for the facebook platform and for other major platforms. including ios and android for years and we have found no indication of misuse with mail.ru. >> doesnt matter what the original intent was from the company, but once that data is in their possession, its then under the per view of the russian intelligence services. >> erin in another blow to facebook, the british government is...

Weeks. according to information that facebook has now provided to congress. >> any reaction of facebook or from this russian company? >> facebook says that they found so far theyre doing an investigation of all of this and they found no indication of misuse by mail.ru saying if they find misuse by the app developers they ban them. mail.ru said other than to promote social games on facebook it didnt collect it says data on americans. it also says that americans account no more than 5% of its face...