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Hundreds of Instagram Users Say Their Accounts Have Been Compromised By What Appears To Be a Coordinated Attack (mashable.com)
A number of people have reported having their Instagram accounts hacked this month, Mashable reports, and many of these hacks appear to have taken the same approach. From a report: Users suddenly find themselves logged out of their accounts and when they try to log back in, they discover that their handle, profile image, contact info and bios have all been changed. Often the profile image has been changed to a Disney or Pixar character and the email address connected to the account is changed to one with a .ru Russian domain, according to Mashable. Some even had their two-factor authentication turned off by hackers. A handful of Instagram users reported the same details to Mashable as have hundreds of others who have taken to Twitter and Reddit to report hacks of their accounts.
most likely fakes flag mission from enemy of russia
Instagram and its social influencers are about as useless as Twitter and its @realDonaldTrump.
The people, the professionals, those we pay dearly to protect us.
WTF??
SO I have to ask.
Does the technology exist to p rotect ourselves and or our property?
Are these big companies getting Cheap with how they compensate or attract what is perceived as "tallent" to which based on the aforementioned news is surfacing with a negative Impact..
Russia owns you now
Better get used to borscht and vodka, comrades
To the motherland!
has instagram? sorry
Wow, I didn't think it was possible for a web hack to make changes to a machine's BIOS.
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Wow -- "hundreds" of users out of a service that has 100's of millions? Is this really newsworthy? There's probably more users of Instagram that lose access to their accounts every day because they forget their passwords.
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how about dont use a dictionary word for your pw.
this would be why people tell you to use a good, high entropy pw.
I avoid social media- but am I not correct in understanding that Instagram is one of Facebook's mini social networks. If you hack an instagram account- do you also by shared id take over their facebook account, or are the two kept separate?
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Shut down all of social media. No more outside influence.
There are plenty of pictures of cats and food available on other websites.
Yet another example of how 2 factor authentication is worthless. It's just like the FBI warnings on VHS tapes. The criminals don't care and the only one who suffers is the person trying to login to their stupid account.
SO the so called Instagram models have been hacked. The world will now end.
and hundreds of people just managed to find eachother so quickly and understand that they weren't alone. It's not a coordinated attack, it's a coordinated effort at blaming Russia for something, because obviously that little .ru e-mail address is a smoking gun, no one else could ever register one of those addresses.
If Roger Stone had only held off, he could have used this as an excuse.
thanks for setting us straight, comrade donald
I fail to see the connection between supposedly Russian email address domains and Trump committing treason. But, buy that same tortured logic, Clinton is just as likely to be involved in nefarious dealings related to email.
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So now they've got to fake it.
Oooo those evil russians. they got your instagram! just like the dnc!
What exactly is a email address domain? And no, I'm not bying your logic.
asking me if I needed to reset my password for my Instagram account. Been happening for a month or more
and nothing of value was lost
Have gnu, will travel.
Tell us more about the "mainstream media"...
fuck off ivan
Assuming that any of what you said was true, how would anti-Russian propaganda which does not mention your president hurt your president?
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fuck off ivan your cover is blown
his president is putin and formerly medvedev