Compromised accounts included Barack Obama's former White House profile.
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://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/34000-instagram-accounts-ai.html
Users mocked Meta's claims that AI itself was not responsible for the exploit compromising 34,000 Instagram accounts, sarcastically blaming engineers and expressing fatigue with the repeated issues.
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://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/34000-instagram-accounts-ai.html
me January 2025 @politico, timing slightly off: we may soon see “the largest cyberattack in history, taking down, at least for a little while, some sizeable piece of the world’s infrastructure… generative AI tools are increasingly being used to create code; in some cases those coders don’t fully understand the code written, and the autogenerated code has already been shown in some cases to introduce new security holes … the world [is] quite vulnerable to ever more audacious attacks.”
meta, right about now: oh shit, he might have a point.
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://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/34000-instagram-accounts-ai.html
@elitanjourno after fixing it, Meta made the point that it was a software bug not endemic to A.I., it just happened to be a bug IN an AI program
which, okay sure.
though i have also heard that line of argument from when an amazon coding bot took out a few of its AWS servers in feb
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
@elitanjourno you can certainly make the case that "bugs in software are bugs and not AI bugs" fwiw
@elitanjourno after fixing it, Meta made the point that it was a software bug not endemic to A.I., it just happened to be a bug IN an AI program
which, okay sure.
though i have also heard that line of argument from when an amazon coding bot took out a few of its AWS servers in feb
@MikeIsaac @elitanjourno yeah just like the aws thing its probably literally true that *AI* is not responsible - their engineers fucking up is
but like still lmao
@jakehalloran1 @elitanjourno right i think that's the distinction. and like sure, that's fine point to make. i just think sorta have to grit ones teeth to make it
@MikeIsaac Was mythos used?
@MikeIsaac @elitanjourno 'It wasn't my mistake, it was a mistake in the code I wrote'
@MikeIsaac @elitanjourno Wondering if the “software bug” is just the data the AI was trained on being sensitive
@MikeIsaac Internal docs confirming the exploit = docs will be subpoenaed. 34k accounts is the headline. Regulatory scrutiny is the actual story.
@GaryMarcus @politico well mythos is being released to the masses soon so this "doomsday" AI model could spell the end of humanity
@GaryMarcus @politico january 2025 me would have eaten this up
now im just tired
@GaryMarcus @politico January you was on some oracle mode and now we got Space Force accounts getting hijacked by vintage propaganda
@GaryMarcus @politico 2025 prediction finally paying off just late enough that no one will remember u said it
Compromised accounts included Barack Obama's former White House profile.
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://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/technology/34000-instagram-accounts-ai.html