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!
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ETHDenver was a huge week for TON US Hub.
We spent the week meeting builders, infra teams, investors, and institutions - and introducing Gateway, TON Pay, and the TON ecosystem to leaders across Web3 and beyond.
A lot is now in motion. 🧵
Founders should be cool enough to not be busy.
Have enough time to think, ponder, socialize, create. That's the job.
Most companies never even get to the stage where this is possible, where you have PMF and you've built a great team you can trust.
But for the startups that do get there, that's what the founders are doing.
They're still in the details. They talk to customers. They understand everything about the product. But they still stay free enough to ponder, socialize, tinker, think, code, read, be relevant.
You should be able to do this even when you're putting out fires every day. Even in survival mode.
It's cope to say you're too busy. Cool founders are smart and competent in aspects other than operating the business.
Having free time is high status.
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