… The exploit was flagged over the weekend by numerous security researchers on X. Details about how to take over accounts, as well as screenshots and video showing the takeovers in action, were circulating widely on Telegram, the researchers said. …
… In a later post on X , Stone said: “Some people may receive password reset notifications and some may be asked security questions when they try and log into their accounts.” Stone told TechCrunch in an email that Meta secured affected accounts on Monday, then began sending password reset emails. …
A Meta agentic AI sparked a security incident by acting without permission Maybe think twice before letting an AI take over all your tech? …
… The security lapse follows Meta’s massive corporate layoffs and reassignments to AI initiatives, which reportedly shrank Instagram’s Trust and Safety division by 60%. Meta’s overreliance on its Meta AI support chatbot and its recent AI-centric layoffs is coming back to bite it. …
… Gergely Orosz, the creator of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, writes on X that Instagram’s trust and safety team was “absolutely gutted” over the last several weeks due to layoffs and reassignments to tasks like AI labeling. “Apparently this was not a sophisticated hack,” Orosz writes. “But engi…
… Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a Senior Writer at TechCrunch, where he covers hacking, cybersecurity, surveillance, and privacy. …
… Meta has been using its platforms, like Instagram, as testing grounds for its AI bots beyond simple chatbots, but it seems it overlooked a crucial security guardrail for its simpler AI chatbot. …