Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert.

Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so nothing in the detection stack fired. Attackers asked the bot to make the change, took the one-time code it sent, and ran the password reset, 404 Media reported.No malware, no stolen credentials, and no prompt injection in the sense most security teams drill for. The agent did exactly what Meta built it to do. That is what should keep a security operations leader up at night: The takeover did not break a control; it rode one that was already trusted.What a SOC needs is a way to walk each recovery path through an audit grid with its AI build team before the next renewal closes. The AI Authority Audit Grid at the end of this