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Hijacking Instagram: Behind The Massive AI Exploit

aired Jun 04, 2026
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confidence 0.99
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Actn75.0
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Clty73.9
Summary

Ejaaz: Now let's say you want to steal a $200,000 Instagram handle. Ejaaz: The old way would be to send a phishing email or install malicious malware or Ejaaz: maybe even buy a leaked password off a shady website on the dark web.

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Key takeaways
  1. 01Josh: And although no code was hacked, there is a new threat vector that we're going Josh: to explore, which is this AI support agent
  2. 02Josh: So recently, Meta has been testing out this AI-powered account recovery assistant Josh: on some Instagram accounts
  3. 03Josh: And the assistant could actually trigger password reset emails which allowed Josh: you to recover an account in the case that you lost it the problem Josh: is that there's no
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