Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (this.weekinsecurity.com) AI

Meta says hackers abused a bug in its Instagram AI-assisted account recovery system to reset passwords on accounts without two-factor authentication, allowing takeover of Instagram accounts and linked details. The company notified at least 20,225 people that their accounts were compromised (including 30 in Maine), and says it has disabled the chatbot and removed the vulnerable code path while checking other chatbots.