Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

Short summary

Hackers used Telegram-shared instructions to manipulate Meta's AI support bot into resetting Instagram passwords, briefly seizing accounts of the Obama White House and U.S. Space Force leadership. The exploit bypassed the bot's security verification in its password-reset function. All Instagram users with account recovery enabled may be vulnerable to similar attacks.

• •Meta's AI support bot lacked sufficient security checks for password resets
• •High-profile government accounts were briefly compromised with pro-Iranian defacement
• •The attack method was distributed via Telegram to potentially enable mass exploitation

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