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The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

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Re: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

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Support requests have always been the weakest link in the security chain for big corps. I've had accounts of mine turned over with 2FA disabled by humans before. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the LLMs are doing the same thing. The simple fact that 2FA can be removed by low level support staff drives me mad. It defeats the whole purpose of the process.

recovery is always the weakest link in any authentication system

Re: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

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post #3

wow thats extremely embarassing for meta

Just another day for Meta in terms of embarrassing outcomes, and yet the company makes hundreds of billions of dollars per year because the only thing that matters anymore is shoving increasingly scammy and worthless ads in front of as many eyeballs as possible, even when the people with those eyeballs can less and less afford to buy anything non-essential.

Re: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

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This happened to my instagram yesterday night while I was asleep. I don't have a particularly high value username (it's probably worth somewhere in between $300-500), but still incredibly frustrating to deal with. True to the article, I had already enabled 2FA last night and it didn't matter.

Thankfully, IG gave me the option of restoring my username when I logged back into my account today.

Re: The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

#20
post #9

Support requests have always been the weakest link in the security chain for big corps. I've had accounts of mine turned over with 2FA disabled by humans before. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the LLMs are doing the same thing. The simple fact that 2FA can be removed by low level support staff drives me mad. It defeats the whole purpose of the process.

recovery is always the weakest link in any authentication system

It's a tough problem, because people forget passwords, change phones, lose access to 2FA devices, but still need to use their accounts.
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