​Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts 

​Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts 

An image of Meta’s support AI

Meta’s AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta’s chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else’s profile and then reset the password.

The issue, which Meta says has since been patched, cropped up around the same time Barack Obama’s White House account on Instagram was hacked. On Sunday, users noticed that the @obamawhitehouse account began posting images containing Iranian propaganda. Hackers appeared to have hijacked the Instagram accounts belonging to the US Space Force Chief Ma …

Read the full story at The Verge.

 

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