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The Mujahideen Hackers Who 'Clean Facebook'

Facebook just admitted that some high-profile public pages were hacked this week. Brian Ries talks to a group of young hackers who claim they exploited a similar bug earlier this month—erasing a batch of anti-Islamic pages.

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