Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

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Meta has notified over 20,000 users that their Instagram accounts were hijacked due to a vulnerability in an AI-assisted account recovery system.
The exploit allowed hackers to reset passwords for accounts without two-factor authentication by tricking Meta's AI chatbot into sending verification codes to unauthorized email addresses.
The hacking campaign operated from mid-April until recently, compromising account access to personal information, posts, and messages.
Meta has since disabled the problematic AI chatbot, removed the flawed code path, and is reviewing other chatbots to prevent future incidents.

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