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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant” bot into resetting account passwords.

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Meta’s Andy Stone said on Twitter/X that the issue had been resolved

I'm guessing the translation of this is that someone added "DO NOT link new e-mails to accounts when resetting passwords." to the initial prompt. And maybe threw in a few more "Do not hallucinates." and "No whammies!" just for good measure.

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