Meta's AI support chatbot made it ridiculously easy for hackers to take over Instagram accounts
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ENGADGET — Meta AI support assistant has apparently been used by hackers to hijack a bunch of Instagram accounts. According to security researchers, the AI tool made it ridiculously easy for hackers to take over the accounts, even if they were protected by two-factor authentication.
The exploit was flagged over the weekend by numerous security researchers on X. Details about how to take over accounts, as well as screenshots and video showing the takeovers in action, were circulating widely on Telegram, the researchers said.
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