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by china 1630 days ago
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...

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

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