Meta's AI Support Chatbot Made It Ridiculously Easy For Hackers To Take Over Instagram Accounts
The company says it's working on securing affected accounts.
Back in December, Meta announced a new AI support assistant it promised would make the account recovery process "faster and simpler" for people who had been locked out of their Facebook or Instagram pages. Now, it seems that Meta may have over-delivered on that promise.
That same Meta AI support assistant has apparently been used by hackers to hijack a bunch of Instagram accounts. According to security researchers, the AI tool made it ridiculously easy for hackers to take over the accounts, even if they were protected by two-factor authentication.
The exploit was flagged over the weekend by numerous security researchers on X. Details about how to take over accounts, as well as screenshots and videoshowing the takeovers in action, were circulating widely on Telegram, the researchers said. The images and videos suggest that hackers were able to simply ask...
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