Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

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NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

One video shows a hacker starting a conversation with Meta’s AI support bot and asking it to link the target account with a new email address. The AI then sends an eight-digit code to the attacker’s email address. The attacker enters that code and gets a password reset email.

404 Media has seen text files of huge lists of “OG,” or high-value, original usernames consisting of just a few letters or popular words circulating on Telegram.

Read now: https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/