And the hackers again. Hundreds of Instagram users are reporting that their accounts have been hacked, stolen or blocked. A Russian link is allegedly behind many of these incidents. According to mashable.com, Instagram, which is under Facebook, has not confirmed the problem with hacking of its users' accounts. However, there is evidence that shows that there has been a significant increase in hacked Instagram accounts this month.
“Although Instagram has more than 1 billion users, it claims that it has not noticed any hacker attacks. However, if we look at Twitter, since the beginning of the month, users have sent almost 800 tweets with the word hack to the official Instagram account, in order to alert the company to the problem. If we compare it with last month, there were only about 40 similar tweets. At the same timeit is very easy to find the most common searches on Reddit or Google Trends. The phrase "Instagram hacked" was at the top on both August 8 and August 11."
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In connection with the theft of the account, the affected persons notify the change of the data in the profile, including the e-mail address and telephone number, which will make it impossible to recover the account. In a number of cases monitored by Karissa Bell of mashable.com, the changed email address had a .ru suffix.
“We have identified several common elements between the attacks by which the accounts were stolen. Often the profile photo was changed immediately, most often to some animated character from Pixar or Disney. Furthermore, the BIO of the profile is often overwritten or completely deleted, and the new e-mail address often ends with the Russian suffix .ru."
In the gallery, you can see cases of hacked accounts and the frequency of searches for the phrase "instagram hacked":
It should be added that most victims did not use two-factor authentication, which consists of entering a password and then entering a six-digit code, which is most often sent to the user via SMS. But even this method does not seem to be completely safe. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has described the two-factor authentication method as obsolete, as hackers are often successful in intercepting coded SMS messages sent to users.
That's great, it's a shame they didn't start a little earlier, on Monday someone stole my account and I had it via FB, e-mail and phone...
This should have been resolved a long time ago. Someone also stole my account from the end of the year already in 2017...
Also, someone stole my account and a lot of my friends. I just don't understand what's the use to anyone?
It happened to me twice
Me 2x during the month. Really great.
All that Putin :))))))))
Daryna Salyuk 🙂
Come on, dude
Go ahead, FB, IG and similar "services" are just for fooling people anyway, just let them disappear overnight. :-)
After all, the Russians are also to blame for the wave of migration and global warming.. and when an asteroid falls on the earth, the Russians will also be responsible for that, like everything 😂😂😂
Yes, a classic... But it goes back quite simply.
Friends, if you don't understand a bit about IT (hacker, DDoS, credential stuffing), get rid of the comments. I understand that at home and Mr. Soukup taught you that Putin is our salvation, and I don't even take it from you, but in the IT world, only a horse would defend Russia... Thanks and I hope you hold your nose.
That's what Putin hacks in the evenings
Russians 😀 😀 😀 uncle half a man even for the unbearable heat we have here 😀
God, these 5 cent administrations, clearly Putin hacks Instagram in the evenings 😃😃😃😃
Well, you're laughing 😀 but my account was stolen 2 times and the e-mail always ended with .ru, so I believe it
Is it interesting why they don't "hack" the honors of famous personalities? Maybe because celebrities don't link their respects to sites like (100000000 free followers within 1 day)? Dementia :D
hi could you help me to get back to my account..??
petaliska@sezna.cz
someone stole it from me on Friday night, renamed it and is using it... I don't know how to proceed...
Every now and then I have an attempt to log in from Russia on Instagram :D
They have stolen my int for 4 days in a row. account. My email was overwritten to an email with the ending konfukou.ru, so I also believe it. I just don't understand how they capture the code that is sent to my e-mail via SMS during two-phase security?
Sorry SMS to my mobile.