Instagram AI chatbot breach may have affected over to 20,000 accounts, Meta discloses
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Instagram AI chatbot breach may have affected over to 20,000 accounts, Meta discloses

Meta has put a number on the security breach in its AI support chatbot for Instagram for the first time: at least 20,225 accounts were compromised. For nearly seven weeks, the system sent password reset links to arbitrary email addresses without verifying they belonged to the account. The chatbot ha...

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Meta has put a number on the security breach in its AI support chatbot for Instagram for the first time: at least 20,225 accounts were compromised. For nearly seven weeks, the system sent password reset links to arbitrary email addresses without verifying they belonged to the account. The chatbot had previously been marketed as a win for account security. The article Instagram AI chatbot breach may have affected over to 20,000 accounts, Meta discloses appeared first on The Decoder .

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    The chatbot had previously been marketed as a win for account security.

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    The article Instagram AI chatbot breach may have affected over to 20,000 accounts, Meta discloses appeared first on The Decoder .

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