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Meta’s AI Bot Misused to Take Over Instagram Accounts
June 4, 2026
A new way to take over Instagram accounts has emerged lately. Hackers used VPN (Virtual Private Network) to communicate with Meta’s AI Bot to avert activation of Instagram’s security systems. Thus, the hacker appeared to be in the same geographical zone as the user of the targeted Instagram account. Hackers took over certain Instagram accounts […]
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Meta Fined for Storing Passwords in Plaintext, Facing €91 Million GDPR Penalty
September 28, 2024
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) has been fined €91 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for improperly storing user passwords in plaintext, violating multiple General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) articles. The penalty stems from a 2019 incident, where Meta discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords were left unsecured on its internal systems. […]
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