Meta’s AI chatbot let hackers compromise over 34,000 Instagram accounts

 

Meta found itself at the center of another embarrassing privacy storm after bad actors tricked its Meta AI chatbot into account takeover. Even the former White House social media account for President Barack Obama and one belonging to a senior official in the Space Force department were breached to post controversial messages. The attack was embarrassingly easy, but devastating. As per internal documents seen by The New York Times, more than 34,000 Instagram accounts were affected. For nearly 20,000 of those accounts, hackers were able to extract sensitive details such as email addresses, phone numbers, and birth dates, among others. “More than 3,500 of the accounts had their user names taken over and changed from the hack,” says the report. Earlier this week, a dormant face scan system was discovered in the software of Meta’s uber-popular smartglasses.