Earlier, in 2008, the NSA found they could snoop on user information being relayed to Kaspersky servers from customer PCs, potentially allowing them to track those users, according to a draft of a top-secret report. Kaspersky denied this was possible today, though The Intercept said detailed reports of customers’ hardware and software were being sent to the firm.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/06/22/foreign-av-companies-targeted-by-nsa/
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kaspersky/