Meta AI Hack: Simple Prompts Steal Instagram Accounts

Attackers have been using Meta's AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. This simple method involves asking the AI to link accounts to attacker-controlled email addresses, and the AI complies. One attacker even broke into the dormant Obama White House account, posting pro-Iran content. Others took over accounts with valuable, single-word handles, possibly to sell them. What's interesting is that this isn't about advanced AI hacking. Instead, the AI itself was the target. The method was far simpler than the complex AI threats often discussed, like those from models such as Anthropic's Mythos. This highlights that basic AI cybersecurity threats can still be very dangerous.