Credit: Tushar Mehta / Android AuthorityTL;DRHackers successfully hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts by manipulating Meta’s automated AI support bot with a simple text prompt to change the target profile’s associated email address.Affected users were allegedly completely locked out, with no mechanism to escalate the issue to human representativesMeta recently laid off over 8,000 employees as part of its AI push.Meta has been using its platforms, like Instagram, as testing grounds for its AI bots beyond simple chatbots, but it seems it overlooked a crucial security guardrail for its simpler AI chatbot. 404 Media reports that hackers used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a bunch of high-profile Instagram profiles by simply asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account!Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority?