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Meta AI Instagram recovery bug exposed 20,225 accounts

Published 15 June 2026

Meta has disclosed that a vulnerability in an AI-powered account recovery tool for Instagram allowed hackers to compromise more than 20,000 user accounts over a period of nearly seven weeks.

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