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Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames (New York Times)

Techmeme 09 June 2026 1h ago
Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames (New York Times)
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New York Times : Docs: ~34K Instagram accounts, including Obama's White House account, were affected in the breach tied to Meta's AI chatbot; attackers changed 3,500+ usernames — The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over Instagram accounts using a bug in the company's new artificial intelligence software.
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