[barbazoo]

Someone at Facebook stealing your domain is quite an accusation. Assuming your domain was similar to your username/IG handle, wouldn't it be more likely to be people wanting your "china" domain for spam/malware/propaganda/etc?

[china]

I think the stealing of my domain was a bit of social engineering by a hacker (not somebody at FB).

Now, my account gets taken without any noticeable trace on my end. No security emails, no suspicious login attempts, nada...

[andkon]

Contra the above dude, I don't think it's all that strange for Facebook employees to profit directly off of their access to these systems. See this article about how employees charge for verifications: https://mashable.com/article/instagram-verification-paid-bla...

[praisewhitey]

there is a lot of precedent for Meta employees taking usernames. here's another example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598226

[klohto]

Not really. It already happened several times since short usernames go for crazy amounts.

[jmnicolas]

> Someone at Facebook stealing your domain is quite an accusation.

NSA employees do it, why would META employees would be better than the average?

[barbazoo]

I wouldn't count a NSA employee as "average", I'd assume they have access to tools the "average" doesn't have. Comparing that to someone at Facebook just doesn't make sense.

[stunt]

I guess he didn't meant the guy from marketing. But mods and customer support people do have admin access over accounts.

[cronix]

Publicly pondering a theory is an accusation now?

[barbazoo]

It read to me like that, yes.