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incidents/AIR-2026-0401

Meta AI Support Bot Manipulated to Enable Instagram Account Takeovers

Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationAgent hijackPrompt injection

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.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Agent hijackprimary
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
  • Prompt injection
    Untrusted content (web pages, documents, emails, tool output) steers a model into ignoring its instructions.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Meta, Enterprise deployment
products
Meta AI Support Bot, Instagram
incident date
31 May 2026
first reported
31 May 2026
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
account_takeover · chatbot_abuse · instagram
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-05-31
    Meta AI Support Bot Reportedly Enabled Takeovers of High-Profile Instagram Accounts
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1510

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