{"id":1011618,"date":"2026-06-02T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011618"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:54:31","slug":"how-hackers-tricked-meta-ai-into-handing-over-high-profile-instagram-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/how-hackers-tricked-meta-ai-into-handing-over-high-profile-instagram-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"How hackers tricked Meta AI into handing over high-profile Instagram accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers were able to manipulate Meta&#8217;s AI chatbot in order to gain access to users&#8217; accounts. Social media platforms like Reddit and X (formerly Twitter) have been filled with complaints from users about how their accounts were taken over by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking part is that hackers didn&#8217;t even need to get a hold of the victim&#8217;s email address or phone in order to gain access to their Instagram account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers were able to manipulate Meta&#8217;s AI chatbot in order to gain access to users&#8217; accounts. Social media platforms like Reddit and X (formerly Twitter) have been filled with complaints from users about how their accounts were taken over by hackers. The shocking part is that hackers didn&#8217;t even need to get a hold of the victim&#8217;s email address or phone in order to gain access to their Instagram account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011620,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011618\/revisions\/1011620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}