After a whistleblower came forward and outages brought Facebook Inc.’s major products offline, Mark Zuckerberg’s personal worth dropped by more than $6 billion in a matter of hours, putting him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people.
The shares of the social media fell 4.9 percent on Monday, extending a slide of almost 15 percent since mid-September.
The stock market decline on Monday reduced Zuckerberg’s net worth to $121.6 billion, putting him behind Bill Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index at No. 5. According to the index, he has lost about $140 billion in a few of weeks.
