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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by ForHackernews on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:28PM (#25401888)
It doesn't have to be "easily accessible" to be valuable.

Corporate espionage exists, insider trading exists (and is more common than you might think), there's any number of parties who might pay for insider info (once properly laundered) about Facebook activities.

Why would "the government of Iran" care about what Facebook is up to? Isn't FB banned in Iran?

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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by fakedang on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:04PM (#25402189)
You forget that intelligence and espionage goes both ways. Iran could use FB in some way to attack the US, just like Russia did, just as it could shield itself from FB.
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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by 9HZZRfNlpR on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:06PM (#25402654)
Russia bought lousy ads and ran some pages like your average boring marketer, hardly an attack.
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