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Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

中文摘要

黑客利用 Meta AI 漏洞劫持 Instagram 账号(含奥巴马账号),目前该漏洞已修复。

English Summary

Hackers exploited Meta's AI chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts, including Obama's, via email change requests. Meta has since patched the vulnerability.

Original Excerpt

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 Iranian propaganda. Hackers appeared to have hijacked the Instagram accounts belonging to the US Space Force Chief Ma … Read the full story at The Verge.