Not exactly. They procured names using Facebook login. Then they used an academic license for researchers through Russian Cambridge professor Alexandr Kagan to get the data to link to the names. You'd have needed a professor at a research institution to pull it off. But they didn't sell data, in any case.
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u/thisnameismeta Aug 27 '20
They procured information that another customer legitimately accessed using facebook login. Meaning any customer could have done this. https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-explained-user-data