Facebook data theft: CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research Ltd for  "illegal harvesting of personal data from Facebook users in India". Reportedly, 

Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said that there will be a CBI probe into the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data theft case.

Cambridge Analytica, the controversial UK political consultancy, came to limelight after its purported role in meddling with the 2016 US elections was exposed. 

The company claimed on its website that it worked on the Bihar assembly elections in 2010, and its clients won a landslide victory.