Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts by Emma Roth

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.

As more of our world moves to agentic AI stuff, this is both sobering and scary. Also, it was not really as much a hack as asking the Meta bot, hey this is my account, change my email. And it did it.