> Heard about the incident going on
> Saw this tweet and started reading
> People losing handles theyâve owned since 2010
> oh thatâs sad
> âI own a few rare ones so I was stressedâ
> tf you mean rare ones
Sorry you lost me there buddy đââïž
Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.
People losing handles theyâve 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 havenât been in years.
Obama White House account got hit.
These arenât some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.
The thing is the exploit is so simple itâs almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the targetâs location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).
Instagramâs AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.
They grab a photo from the targetâs profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the personâs face moving around, upload that to Metaâs AI as proof.
And Metaâs AI just accepts it because it canât tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someoneâs 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 donât know exactly how, just that it did.
Point is even locked down accounts went down.
Then you try to recover your account and youâre talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.
You canât escalate to a human. Youâre just stuck. Your asset is gone and thereâs 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 thereâs literally no person anywhere to catch it.
Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.
Now thankfully itâs patched but I donât think it will be the last one. Stay safe!
@jakeufps Genuinely wish the wireless version came out sooner cause my wired version (and replacement) were plagued with the cable issue :( i ended up just discarding the thought of this mouse even with its nice shape
This low IQ AI slop is contributing to data centers using all of our water, poising communities, increased RAM prices, increased GPU prices and stealing data from copyrighted material.
Idk how else to put into words how much I love these but if I were on death row, this with some rice and nice crispy fried eggs would be my last meal
DONT GIVE NE JUST 2 PIECES GIMME A WHOLE PACK
Copy pasting the PSA I posted in the Philippine maimai group!
Just wanted to bring awareness towards this whole thing going down because unfortunately, one of the members of this Circle is unfortunately Filipino and has been seen playing (1/8)
@Fenrirtheicewo1 I feel like they could still include this for a third movie! Where heroes are finally able to operate legally again, Bob proud of it all and taking in the new golden age, finally has time to process the events that happened in the first movie and can build upon the guilt