AUSTIN, TEXAS - SEPTEMBER 18: In this photo illustration, the Instagram logo is displayed on a computer screen on September 18, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Meta has confirmed that ...

Hackers successfully hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts by manipulating Meta’s automated AI support bot with a simple text prompt to change the target profile’s associated email address.

Instagram has resolved a security issue that allowed several users’ accounts to get hacked. The attack appeared to rely on tricking Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into granting access to a ...

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email ...