Obama-era White House Instagram account hacked
The White House Instagram account from Barack Obama's presidency was hacked, and false posts and AI-generated images were published on it. The attacker gained access to the account by tricking Meta's AI support chatbot, and the false posts were deleted. More than 20,000 Instagram users were affected by the same hack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- The White House
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Takeover of the Obama-era White House Instagram account and publication of false posts
- Cause / method
- Tricking Meta's AI support chatbot to gain access to the Instagram account
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- The Obama-era White House Instagram account was hacked and posts appeared on it.
- Meta confirmed the security breach, and the false posts were deleted.
- It emerged that the attacker had accessed the account by tricking Meta's AI support chatbot.
- The same Instagram hack was found to have affected more than 20,000 users.
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