Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
2026-06-08T01:23:30Z•f9ff6a13fd67fd87613594b243e1cf721665f9a2c594e2d4f77ea633da483b4f
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What happened
Multiple high-impact incidents and law-enforcement actions reported: attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to reset Instagram passwords and briefly deface high-profile accounts; a CISA contractor publicly leaked highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials and internal build/deploy artifacts on GitHub, triggering congressional inquiries; a data-extortion attack against Canvas threatened data from ~275M students/faculty and disrupted schools; Canadian and U.S. authorities arrested the alleged Kimwolf botnet operator, and Dutch authorities seized ~800 servers and arrested two people tied to
Why it matters
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- 2026-06-08T01:23:30Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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