Mark Zuckerburg will be added to data privacy lawsuit that could expose him to ...

Washington’s top prosecutor has named Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in a lawsuit against Facebook related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, potentially exposing the social media brainchild to financial penalties.

Attorney General Karl Racine said Wednesday that he added Zuckerberg to a lawsuit filed in 2018 after an ongoing investigation ‘revealed that he was personally involved in decisions related to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s failure to protect user data.’

‘This lawsuit is about protecting the data of half of all District residents and tens of millions of people across the country,’ Racine tweeted. 

‘We’ve taken our obligation to investigate wrongdoing very seriously - and Facebook should take its responsibility to protect users just as seriously.’

If found legally culpable, Zuckerberg could be fined up to $5,000 for any of the 300,000 district residents whose privacy might have been violated in the breach. 

Zuckerberg is worth an estimated $122 billion.

Racine originally filed the lawsuit against Facebook in 2008 for allowing data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data from as many as 87 million users before the 2016 presidential election.

He alleged in the lawsuit that Facebook misled users about the security of their data and failed to properly monitor third-party apps.

The suit came after Cambridge University's Aleksandr Kogan and his company, Global Science Research (GSR), launched an app called 'thisisyourdigitallife' and sold personal information of users to a political consulting firm.

Since the original filing, Racine said his team has ‘reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of documents produced in litigation and

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