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Meta A.I. Bug Allowed Hackers to Take Over Instagram Accounts

10 June 2026 at 00:51
The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Of the 34,000 accounts, 20,000 were breached, giving hackers access to the account holders’ email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and other personal data.
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