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Instagram AI chatbot breach may have affected over to 20,000 accounts, Meta discloses

Meta has put a number on the security breach in its AI support chatbot for Instagram for the first time: at least 20,225 accounts were compromised. For nearly seven weeks, the system sent password reset links to arbitrary email addresses without verifying they belonged to the account. The chatbot ha

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Meta has put a number on the security breach in its AI support chatbot for Instagram for the first time: at least 20,225 accounts were compromised. For nearly seven weeks, the system sent password reset links to arbitrary email addresses without verifying they belonged to the account. The chatbot ha

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
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