Just In: A major bug in Meta AI allows any account to be suspended and prevents users from successfully appealing the suspension. This affects WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. It works on all platforms.
All you have to do is repeatedly report the account for fraud and scams multiple times. Meta and its developers are ignoring this issue. It’s been going on for weeks, and nobody at Meta is doing anything about it.
We expect better support from them, along with an instant unban option — or at least bring back the old appeal forms!
@finkd@Meta@instagram@facebook@andymstone
I've been saying this for years: depending entirely on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp for your business is risky.
Meta's customer support is still one of its biggest weaknesses. Even paying users with a blue checkmark often struggle to get help when their accounts are hacked or disabled.
Millions of businesses rely on Meta's platforms. It's time for Meta to be held accountable and provide proper support, especially during security incidents.
Meta gave zero updates about the AI bot hacking incident until it got to the press. And when they do, it’s just tucked as replies under someone’s tweet
Congrats on laying off T&S and automating the accounts support with gullible AI bots tho, hope you liked that promo packet.
@thsottiaux Nope. Codex is perfect. The rate limits are not. Last month rate limits should be default limit level to avoid codex being claude in terms of limits.
my instagram (@ korn) was stolen overnight via the Meta AI exploit and was subsequently disabled.
it was Meta Verified, facial scan verified, and had 0 TOS violations.
the account is the sole source of my income.
i spent 6 hours trying to get human support and meta's support AI gave me 4 broken links in a row. we're at the point where one AI stole it and another can't fix it, zero humans in the loop anywhere.
does anyone know how to get in contact with meta support about this?
it is absolutely ridiculous that a trillion dollar company allows an exploit like this and doesn't even address it.
@instagram@AIatMeta@DarkWebInformer
Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.
People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.
I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.
Obama White House account got hit.
These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.
The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).
Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.
They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.
And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.
Point is even locked down accounts went down.
Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.
You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.
The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.
One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.
Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.
Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!
⚠️ UPDATE: The 2 major Instagram exploits we posted about are getting abused after quietly working for months.
The method lets attackers take over accounts by using a VPN to match the account’s country region, starting a password reset, then convincing Meta’s AI support to swap the email.
High-value usernames like @hey have reportedly been stolen, with over $1M+ in accounts already pulled over the past 3 days.
The Codex usage limits have been reset for all paid ChatGPT subscriptions. You should be back to 100% weekly and 100% hourly limits.
Let the tokens do incredible things today and have fun.
Not everything has to be AI.
More people are turning to DuckDuckGo's AI-free search as they grow frustrated with Google's AI-powered results.
Perhaps it's time for Google to hit the brakes and give human-created content more visibility again.
Have you noticed this issue on your iPhone too? 👀
iOS 26.5 Contact Poster Not Updating? Users Report Profile Photo Sync Bug on iPhone.
Many iPhone users after updating to iOS 26.5 are now reporting issues with Contact Posters and profile photos not updating properly.
Some say:
• New contact photos don’t sync
• Old posters still appear
• Contact images randomly disappear
• Changes aren’t reflecting across devices