highly sensitive material about political opponents—which may have been hacked or stolen—somehow ended up in the company’s possession. By gaining access to opposition email accounts, databases, and even private medical records, the firm discovered that Buhari likely had cancer, which was not public knowledge at the time. The use of hacked material was not unique to Nigeria, and Cambridge Analytica also procured kompromat on the opposition leader of St. Kitts and Nevis, an island nation in the Caribbean.
