Because very few other former FB employees (or Google for that matter) have come out from under NDA's to talk frankly about what they've seen in the mega-iest of megacorps.
It's not that what she's saying is especially surprising, it's that it's rare for someone to be saying it at all.
what is and isn't surprising to our Internet bubble of tech nerds isn't the same for the entire readership she's primarily targeting. her whistleblowing is a net positive for global awareness and provides content that I can easily pass on to family, friends, etc.
nobody outside the bubble cares about what she has to say.
How do you justify such an incredibly strong assertion?
Have you seen any uptake on the articles around her? I don't. I see multiple articles that are being ignored.
Yet here we are on HN. I learned something from the article.
I didn't know that the most common vector for compromised accounts were like farms.