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Meta AI Support Bot Reportedly Enabled Takeovers of High-Profile Instagram Accounts
Hackers reportedly used Meta's AI support chatbot to take over high-profile Instagram accounts by allegedly convincing it to change account email information and trigger recovery flows. Reported targets included the Barack Obama White House account; the account of John F. Bentivegna, the Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force; Sephora's account; and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. Meta said the issue had been resolved.
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-05-31T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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