The FBI has announced it has successfully teamed up with Facebook to shut down a group of hackers who stole almost a billion dollars from computers around the world.

Though the takedown of the 10-man group “Gods of Irony” is fairly technical, all one really needs to know is this: Hackers, like everyone else with access to a computer, are on Facebook. And those hackers are using Facebook to not only post pictures of their cats in funny outfits, but to find new targets. With hundreds of millions of people under-protected on social networks, there may be no better place to find targets than Facebook. The social networking giant was able to pick up Gods of Irony’s malicious activity, and track down not just the hackers but also the their computers. Facebook gave the information to the FBI, who worked with governments throughout eastern and central Europe to make the arrests.

Please, please Hollywood, tell us there’s a screenplay for this. The world’s first Internet buddy cop movie? If you got Joss Whedon to direct and Hugh Laurie as a gruff but brilliant Special Agent, who wouldn’t see it?