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by ufmace 2206 days ago
Well it depends on what you mean. I'd say there's basically a 100% chance they can access your account. In a properly designed system for this, there would be a feature for allowing certain admin users to log in as an arbitrary user and access all of their information as them, without ever seeing or typing their password, so the actual password is kept secure and there are logs of which admin "ghosts" which user accounts when.

Would I bet that the Chinese Government has this properly implemented and can't access passwords once set? Yeah no way.