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Hackers tricked Meta chatbot into giving access to Instagram accounts

All Content from Business Insider·Aditi Bharade,Robert Scammell·4 months ago
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They tricked Meta's chatbot to hack into Instagram accounts. It's a warning about how much we trust AI. Instagram accounts were taken over by hackers. Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images Hackers say they tricked Meta's AI chatbot into giving them access to other people's Instagram accounts — and all they had to do was ask. Over the weekend, people said they hijacked multiple Instagram accounts by asking Meta's support chatbot to link a target's Instagram account to a new email address, according to videos and screenshots of the interactions circulating online. The demonstrations show the chatbot saying it had sent a verification code to the new email. After the person entered the code, the chatbot displayed an option to reset the account's password.…

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