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Accounts are seized by politely asking a support bot

development2026-06-02

Claim

Hackers seized the Instagram accounts of the Obama White House, a Space Force chief and Sephora just by asking Meta's support bot to swap the registered email — the first social engineering attack where the social was optional.

Reporting date: 2026-06-02 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 2, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to June 2, 2026

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Meta

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An SSD side-channel fingerprints open apps by disk timing

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Accounts are seized by politely asking a support bot
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-02
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-02-social-engineering-without-the-social
Claim: Hackers seized the Instagram accounts of the Obama White House, a Space Force chief and Sephora just by asking Meta's support bot to swap the registered email — the first social engineering attack where the social was optional.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to June 2, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-2-2026
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