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Instagram Hack Targets Celebrities (bbc.com)
Instagram has revealed a flaw in its systems revealed "a number of" stars' phone numbers and email addresses to cyber-attackers. From a report: The Facebook-owned social network has emailed verified members, usually prominent figures, to let them know. It said it believed "one or more" attackers had targeted high-profile stars to get their contact information. Instagram said passwords had not been stolen but warned users to watch for suspicious activity on their accounts. However, it did not say which accounts had been affected. The security breach was made possible due to a bug in the company's own software.
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...also, I love how weak security could flip around to make 2-factor auth a liability instead of a benefit
Seriously, everyone can see them. Unless that was the plan all along, don't do it. Because they WILL leak.
The vast majority of people are just completely fucking stupid. Celebrities, for the most part, at least the ones coming up today, even more so as most of them lack any sort of actual education.
It's all good if they're attractive females, broseph.
don't use Instagram
I've seen yours
you really should shave that thing
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boy am I glad for 3 things.
That I am off the grid
That I am not a "celebrity" nor a Kardashian.
That I don't instagram my dessert to peeps
Why? I don't want you looking at it. Why would I make the experience for you and more tolerable?
Why do people keep trusting these damned apps and web sites? I'm sorry, but all of these services should be presumed to be grossly insecure and written by people more interested in the ad revenue than security.
Boo hoo, some celebrities who wanted to take pictures of their tits got hacked. Who fucking cares?
Until companies bear legal liability for their own security incompetence, these platforms will always get hacked. If you want to keep your private data private, stop fucking putting it into the cloud and trusting social media -- social media are just ad companies in the guise of a shiny bauble.
A bunch of celebrities, or a bunch of stupid teenagers ... none of them know enough about this kind of technology to understand what they're doing isn't safe. So it's arguably their own damned fault, and the fault of the people who make these things.
And as long as the EULA says "we bear no responsibility", it will keep happening. And I will continue to not have any sympathy for people who put their lives online to sites which time after time demonstrate they can't be trusted.
You want security? Stop using this shit.
Pay attention, this is about a password leak from Instagram and have nothing to do with nudes.
Probably the main reason to gain access to Instagram accounts is to expose nude pictures, sharing them with the world instead of just specific people (or nobody). Don't underestimate how many who hope for a Fappening 4.0
Good luck with uploading nudes to Instagram. They will remove it asap.
Not celebrities! Is nothing sacred anymore?
Links to nekkid Jennifer Lawrence pix or it never happened.
Wait, are you saying she's a cuckoo because she's an anti -vaxxer? If a Vaxxer is someone who thinks vaccines cause autism, and she's against that, I'd say she was less a cuckoo that most.
Sooner or later celebrities will run form social media, if those mistake will repeat. Instagram, Facebook, iOS and many more are less safe by day. And the risk of some comments made by hacker on some famous person profile maybe very destructive. Hope the security IT teams of this giants will do they work better in the future. .
You're an idiot. You've got it wrong.