The Attorney General of the District of Columbia in the United States, Karl Reisin, announced that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was brought in by the defendant in a lawsuit against the company due to the user data leak scandal. On Wednesday, October 20, he announced this on his Twitter page.
“I just added Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant to my lawsuit against Facebook. Our ongoing investigation has shown that he was personally involved in decisions related to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s failure to protect user data. We took our obligation to investigate wrongdoing very seriously, ”- wrote Reisin.
The attorney general added that Facebook must take its responsibility to protect users seriously.
In April, Elon Gal, CTO of cybersecurity company Hudson Rock, reported that the personal data and phone numbers of more than 500 million Facebook users were leaked to the Internet.
A Facebook spokesman told the publication that the data was extracted due to a vulnerability that the company patched in 2019. In total, users from 106 countries were affected.
In 2018 The New York Times wrote on how the UK-based Cambridge Analytica was able to use the data of about 50 million Facebook users to send targeted political ads.
Former employees of the company told the publication that Cambridge Analytica specialists used the data of users who did not give their consent to this. The first revelations were followed by a series of materials in major British and American media.
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