{
 "id": "AIR-2026-0401",
 "slug": "meta-ai-support-bot-manipulated-to-enable-instagram-account",
 "title": "Meta AI Support Bot Manipulated to Enable Instagram Account Takeovers",
 "summary": "Hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to compromise high-profile Instagram accounts by tricking it into modifying account recovery emails. Meta subsequently resolved the vulnerability.",
 "type": "attack_on_ai",
 "categories": [
  "agent_hijack",
  "prompt_injection"
 ],
 "severity": 3,
 "targets": [
  "Meta",
  "enterprise_deployment"
 ],
 "products": [
  "Meta AI Support Bot",
  "Instagram"
 ],
 "incident_date": "2026-05-31",
 "incident_date_precision": "day",
 "first_reported": "2026-05-31",
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1510",
   "publisher": "AI Incident Database",
   "title": "Meta AI Support Bot Reportedly Enabled Takeovers of High-Profile Instagram Accounts",
   "published_at": "2026-05-31"
  }
 ],
 "source_count": 1,
 "confidence": 0.9,
 "status": "published",
 "origin": "seed_aiid",
 "tags": [
  "account_takeover",
  "chatbot_abuse",
  "instagram"
 ],
 "created_at": "2026-10-18T06:33:31.967Z",
 "updated_at": "2026-10-18T06:59:35.797Z"
}