Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
2026-06-09T13:23:34Z•a23a9a9404e8a7757263b7b8525edfde01b9c74f1da6e85da68880cd9f71e694
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What happened
Multiple high-impact cyber incidents reported by KrebsOnSecurity in Apr–Jun 2026: attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to socially engineer password resets and briefly seize high-profile Instagram accounts; a CISA contractor publicly exposed AWS GovCloud keys and extensive internal secrets on GitHub, prompting Congressional inquiries; the Canvas education platform suffered a large data-extortion incident threatening ~275 million student/faculty records; Dutch authorities seized ~800 servers and arrested two operators tied to infrastructure used in Russian cyber operations; law-enforce
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- krebs_on_security
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- 2026-06-09T13:23:34Z
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- Yes
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