Meta notifies 20,000 Instagram users whose accounts were hijacked via AI support bot
Meta has begun notifying approximately 20,000 Instagram users that their accounts may have been compromised after attackers exploited a flaw in an AI-assisted account recovery tool. The company says the vulnerability allowed unauthorized parties to obtain password reset links for accounts they did not own, leading to account takeovers. According to a breach notification submitted … The post Meta notifies 20,000 Instagram users whose accounts were hijacked via AI support bot appeared first on CyberInsider.
A vulnerability in Meta's AI-assisted account recovery tool, High Touch Support (HTS), allowed attackers to hijack approximately 20,000 Instagram accounts by obtaining password reset links for compromised email addresses.
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