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

  • Zack Whittaker--Weekinsecurity.com
  • published date: 2026-06-06 18:35:27 UTC

Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.

Meta is notifying thousands of people whose Instagram accounts were hijacked during the months-long abuse of the company's AI chatbot, which hackers repeatedly tricked into taking control of a person… [+3892 chars]