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Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot
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Meta confirmed that hackers exploited a bug in its AI chatbot to hijack over 20,000 Instagram accounts by bypassing two-factor authentication through password reset requests.

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Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot
Hackers likely took over 20,225 Instagram accounts using Meta's AI support chatbot, the company confirmed in a notice filed with the state of Maine. In the notice, spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer, Meta blames a "bug" for the exploit that allowed attackers to hijack accounts without two-factor authentication simply by asking the chatbot for a password reset: The tool itself worked properly and functioned as intended; however due to a bug in a separate code path, the system did not properly v
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