20,000 of those accounts didn't have two-factor authentication on, which meant personal info like private messages, phone and email was accessible
3.5k "high value" accounts were stolen before the company says it fixed things for the OG holders
w/ @elitanjourno
some news: it turns out 34,000 Instagram accounts got hit by a Meta AI exploit the other day, per internal company docs
hackers also used a senior "Space Force" official's account to post anti-Iran war messaging in the voice of "Hanoi Hannah"
https://t.co/bGmexfo20z
Notice: Meta says ~20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack that abused an AI-powered account recovery support tool to reset passwords (@eduardkovacs / SecurityWeek)
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i've been developing a creative-ideation pipeline that analyzes a prompt's weakness to route it through a creative framework from famous artists & thinkers
ie: too generic -> Eno's oblique strategies, too open-ended -> Oulipian constraints
the interesting part is that although it was intended more for areas like design or art, it is insanely useful in many areas you would not expect. for example, i ran out of interesting findings in my Unicode rendering research project and ran it through the creative-ideation recursively and it thought laterally and discovered a whole new class of bugs
it turns out past a certain knowledge baseline a lot of problems just boil back down to creativity again