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Now to under armour. a data breach affected 150 million accounts. including user names, e-mail addresses, passwords. under armour says the hack happened in february, but it was discovered this week. how does that happen? >> you know, companies are getting a little better at ac s assessing when this happens and brings it to the attention of consumers. not happening fast enough. the chief digital officer at my fitness pal said, once we were aware, we quickly took steps to determine the nature and scope of the issue. we are working with leading data security firms to assist in our investigation. ...

That's the iranian intelligence agency. they began the hacking campaign in 2013 and the government says they stole troefs of data, including material from 8,000 university professors worldwide as well as various government agencies here in the u.s. this material included academic journals, dissertations and entire e-mail inboxes. the fbi deputy director, he said it amounted to 3.4 billion dollars worth of material from the universities, many of which are publicly funded, stealing taxpayer dollars. this was an intricate scheme where they did surveillance of each target, sent sophisticated e-mai...

Anna, thank you so much. your work over the last days on this tells us so much, but explain to people what role facebook played and how cambridge analytica reportedly then used these 50 million user names to mine data that was so critically important or could have been critically important to the trump campaign. >> i think what's crucial here is that facebook knew about this breach. they knew that 50 million users' data was inappropriately taken, and they did nothing about it until they realized last week that reporting was going to be imminent, exposing this breach. and i think that's really ...

Dealing with behavioral research and strategic communications. cambridge spun off in the u.s. and was backed by republican mega donor robert and rebecca mercer and former white house chief strategist steve bannon was the company's vice president. according to federal election commission data, the trump campaign paid cambridge $5.9 million during the 2016 campaign. a company that harvested data from 50 million facebook profiles. to put that in perspective, there are about 200 million u.s. facebook users, meaning one in over four americans' data was collected, and this was not a data breach. ins...

Election the trump campaign paid cambridge $5.9 million during the 2016 election. this company -- a company that harvested data from 50 million facebook profiles. and there are about 200 million facebook users meaning one in four americans' data was collected and it wasn't a data breach like equifax. they were paid to take a personality survey. only 260,000 people took that survey but they were able to scrape data from the friend's list giving them data from millions more people. but how did they do this? well by taking the survey, facebook users handed over information including their user na...