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6/1/2026 • EN

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Hackers exploited Meta's AI support bot to take over high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking it to change linked emails.

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Simon Willison

6/1/2026 • EN

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Hackers exploited Meta's AI chatbot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking it to change account recovery details.

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Simon Willison

5/20/2026 • EN

AI agents and the new economics of account takeover

Analysis of a real-world account takeover attack, highlighting how AI agents enable fast, coordinated credential stuffing and the new economics of cybercrime.

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White Blue

9/23/2021 • EN

A suspicious email from Cloudflare

A developer investigates a suspicious Cloudflare email, uncovering a potential account takeover vulnerability using persistent API credentials.

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Nicholas Whittaker

Account Takeover Articles

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

AI agents and the new economics of account takeover

A suspicious email from Cloudflare

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