{"id":344844,"date":"2026-06-03T02:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=344844"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:48:20","slug":"meta-says-hackers-can-not-access-accounts-through-its-ai-chatbot-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/meta-says-hackers-can-not-access-accounts-through-its-ai-chatbot-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta says hackers can not access accounts through its AI chatbot &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Meta says it has resolved a problem that allowed hackers to trick its AI assistant into granting access to other users\u2019 accounts, including high-profile individuals, in line with multiple media reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">404 Media<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/01\/meta-ai-hack-obama-sephora-instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> say hackers used the tactic to focus on Barack Obama\u2019s White House account, beauty retailer Sephora and the U.S. Space Force chief master sergeant, John Bentivegna.<\/p>\n<p>Regular users also reported similar takeovers on X, even sharing screen-recorded videos of conversations with Meta\u2019s AI chatbot detailing how the hacks were executed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_miniplayer\">\n<section id=\"miniplayer_6a1f37a75e6e8-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 4 videos.\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" data-displayinline-player-id=\"miniplayer_6a1f37a75e6e8\" data-displayinline-video-id=\"11745582\" data-displayinline-ratio=\"16:9\" data-displayinline=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/playlist\/11745582,11734019,11674341,11390901\/?poster=https%3A%2F%2Fi2.wp.com%2Fmedia.globalnews.ca%2Fvideostatic%2Fnews%2Fkyocqqci5s-my0coj7q0k%2Fmeta.jpg%3Fw%3D1200%26quality%3D70%26strip%3Dall#autoplay&#038;stickyiframe=miniplayer_6a1f37a75e6e8\" data-displayinline-playlist=\"11745582,11734019,11674341,11390901\" data-displayinline-sticky=\"true\" data-permutive-data='{\"content\":{\"name\":\"Meta found liable in child exploitation case\",\"type\":\"video\",\"sections\":[\"videos\",\"national\",\"health\",\"tech\"],\"keywords\":[\"meta\",\"short-clip\",\"social-media\",\"top-news\",\"health-matters\"],\"iab\":{\"categories\":[\"Computers and Electronics\/Computer Security\",\"Computers and Electronics\"],\"tags\":[\"2025 United States federal mass layoffs\",\"404 Media\",\"Addiction\",\"Artificial intelligence\",\"Authentication\",\"Barack Obama\",\"Big Tech\",\"Chatbot\",\"Chief executive officer\",\"Chief master sergeant\",\"Child\",\"Company\",\"Drug\",\"Drug prohibition\",\"Email\",\"Email address\",\"Facebook\",\"Fraud\",\"Global News\",\"Hacker\",\"Image\",\"Instagram\",\"Internet bot\",\"John F. 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Once the hacker does so, an option appears allowing them to reset the hacked user\u2019s password.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue has been resolved and we&#8217;re securing impacted accounts,\u201d Meta said in a press release to Global News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The breach comes as Meta undergoes an operational shift that may see human roles transferred to AI and a rise in using tech-forward features across its platforms, including customer support on Instagram and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate\u2019s chatbot customer support feature, launched last yr, will proceed to be updated over time, in line with a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2026\/03\/boosting-your-support-and-safety-on-metas-apps-with-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March update from the tech giant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said in the discharge that its AI chatbot is about up for users to report scams, impersonation accounts or problematic content and to administer privacy, reset passwords, and update profile settings.<\/p>\n<p>Last yr, Meta reported \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.meta.com\/reports\/integrity-reports-q3-2025\/\">positive\u00a0results<\/a>\u201d from changes to the service, which it said reduced mistakes and focused on regulating illegal and severe content across all Meta platforms, including terrorism, child exploitation, drugs, fraud and scams.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm children, \u00a0Feb. 18, 2026, in Los Angeles.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAP Photo\/Ryan Sun\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The AI systems will \u201ceventually give you the option to tackle work that\u2019s higher suited to technology, like repetitive reviews of graphic content or areas where adversarial actors are consistently changing their tactics, reminiscent of with illicit drug sales or scams,\u201d the March release noted, before adding that Meta will \u201cstill\u00a0have\u00a0people\u00a0who\u00a0review\u00a0content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, tons of of Meta staff were laid off in its Reality Labs division because the tech giant shifted its focus from metaverse products to AI. In late May, Reuters reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a company-wide memo that the corporate was not planning any further layoffs for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement on the identical day the \u200bFacebook owner carried out a\u00a0massive restructuring of the corporate, \u200bshedding 10 per cent of its workforce globally and \u2060transferring 7,000 other employees to recent initiatives related to AI \u200bworkflows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u2014 With files from Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta says it has resolved a problem that allowed hackers to trick its AI assistant into granting access to other users\u2019 accounts, including high-profile individuals, in line with multiple media reports. 404 Media and The Guardian say hackers used the tactic to focus on Barack Obama\u2019s White House account, beauty retailer Sephora and the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[4290,5630,307,5110,5600,3718,1903],"class_list":["post-344844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-access","tag-accounts","tag-chatbot","tag-hackers","tag-longer","tag-meta","tag-national"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344847,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344844\/revisions\/344847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}