Instagram AI Takeover: How Attackers Exploited Meta Support Bots

SPEAKER_00: You wake up, you open Instagram, and your profile photo is gone. Your username is still there, but the recovery email on the account is not yours anymore.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of account, support, recovery, including: Your username is still there, but the recovery email on the account is not yours anymore.

1. 01That check is called identity verification, which means proving account ownership with evidence an attacker should not have
2. 02Attackers simply claimed ownership of a target account, and the system approved a recovery path that should have required stronger checks
3. 03The gate's agent really's only critical decision is this