You may have heard that some notable Instagram accounts were hacked over the weekend. Barack Obama's White House account was arguably the biggest among them. What you may not have heard is that the hackers didn't have to try very hard: Meta's AI customer support chatbot essentially handed the accounts over.

Tomas Stamulis, the chief security officer at the cybersecurity company Surfshark, compared Meta's AI assistant to "an inexperienced employee."

Instagram says it has resolved an issue which saw hackers trick its AI support tool into giving them access to other users' accounts. According to claims shown in screenshots and videos shared on social media,

Hackers show they were able to send a basic text prompt to Meta's AI support bot in assisting them to reset the passwords and seize targeted Instagram accounts.

Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.

Meta AI loophole continues to allow hackers to hijack Instagram accounts. Reports claim Meta's fix failed to secure the backend.

ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke to SiriusXM host Mike Muse about how hackers accessed social media accounts, including the Obama White House Instagram account, via Meta’s AI support chatbot.

Instagram has patched a serious security flaw that let hackers use Meta's own AI support chatbot to take over accounts without ever needing the victim's password or email.