Technology6/1/2026•The Verge

Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hackers could take over a target’s Instagram account just by asking Meta’s AI chatbot to link a new email address. Hackers could take over a target’s Instagram account just by asking Meta’s AI chatbot to link a new email address. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 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 Ir

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