Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

Meta's AI enactment chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared connected Telegram, a hacker shows however they could instrumentality implicit an relationship by asking Meta's chatbot to power the email associated with idiosyncratic else's illustration and past reset the password.

The issue, which Meta says has since been patched, cropped up astir the aforesaid clip Barack Obama's White House account connected Instagram was hacked. On Sunday, users noticed that the @obamawhitehouse relationship began posting images containing Iranian propaganda. Hackers appeared to person hijacked the Instagram accounts belonging to the US Space Force Chief Ma …

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