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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.
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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