How to hack an instagram account 2018


How to Hack into an Instagram Account

When I’m not studying videos of raccoons online (know your enemy!), I’m fielding requests from wannabe hackers all around the world because I work for Hacker Highschool. So, wannabe hackers tend to think our curriculum is there as a checklist of scriptkiddie tools that lets them DoS your online competition of Banjo Hero or creep into private Instagram accounts.

And it is. But it isn’t.

First, I recognize that hacking an Instagram password is wrong. I get it. Even if it’s their brother’s Instagram account they want to get into. Because it’s family that makes it okay, I guess. So yes, it's illegal, but being illegal doesn't make it wrong. But it’s wrong because guessing a password isn’t hacking, and not because it’s their brother. And this is why so many nascent hacker-wannabes who want to learn hacking don’t really want to learn hacking. They want to learn computer magic, and it doesn’t really work like that.

How it works is actual work. And it’s a grind sometimes. What’s strange is that so many people today can spend actual days virtually cutting virtual trees in a virtual world to get to level three tree warrior, but won’t spend an hour trying requests through Tamper Data to understand how Instagram on the web is authenticating people differently than the app. Strange because both are really not much more than pushing a cursor around a screen.

So, teaching you hacking is partly about teaching you how to set up and execute a kind of work grind. Then there’s the mindset thing too. But you know what, you need a mindset to get out of bed and go to work too, and that trumps the hacker mindset in the mornings. So, let’s leave the hacker mindset for those who already have the will to do the work grind mindset, because you won’t have one without the other.

The last part of teaching you to hack an Instagram account is that by the time I teach you what you need to know with OS, protocols, services, daemons, applications, authentication, and encryption, and what you need to do with hiding, relaying, bouncing, testing, fuzzing, tracing, trying, retrying, and learning from your frequent failures, you’ll know too much about how little you really know and how you could get caught doing it. So, you probably won’t be doing anything illegal. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but when we’re talking about a skill like hacking that focuses on knowledge-gettin’ then you can expect to quickly have more than enough knowledge to see your own foolishness.

Unless you want me to just tell you to use the instacrack tool for Windows available on the ISECOM website to just put in an account name and view private account pictures. But that’s telling, not teaching, and it’s running a tool and not hacking. Also, don’t ask me how to cook if you want me to show you how to warm up a TV dinner.

But if that’s really what you want, then you never wanted to be a hacker, which means your life is about only having enough knowledge to be dangerous. Which is okay if you want to be an amateur assassin or a cashier in a natural foods store for the rest of your life. Not judging. We all have our dreams. But then you’re looking in the wrong place.

Next thing to understand: hacking isn't a tool, it's a methodology. You likely won't be able to hack an established service without considerable time spent learning its operations and interactions. Which isn’t necessarily hard. It’s actually pretty straight-forward.

The fact of this is that there's only two ways to steal anything: either you take it, or someone gives it to you. You need to trick Instagram to give you their credentials. Or you need to trick the person whose credentials you want to steal into giving it to you. Or you need to take it from them, or Instagram. But it's likely you won't be able to take it from Instagram. Not impossible, just not likely because they have a lot more people with a lot more experience working on securing it then you have for breaking it. Supposedly. Who knows? Maybe you’ll get lucky. People win the lottery all the time. That’s why so many people play it.

Then those two ways actually expand into four tactics that you try against both the target sender and target receiver. These four:

  • Induction – analyzing the target environment where the interactions happen (OS, app type, app development language, etc. ). The environment is completely under the target’s control, so it’s important to figure out how they set up their applications to live there.
  • Inquest – capturing and reading emanations from the target (domain services, errors, heat signatures, power spikes, info leaks in packet padding, etc.). As any family will tell you, from bath tubs to babies, everything leaks. It’s the same with computers. The Internet exists because protocols play nice, communicate, and share, or else you’d never get online and go anywhere. So, ask and find out what’s sharing what. And the better you listen, the more you know.
  • Interaction – triggering responses from the target by sending all possible types of interactions in all possible ways (TCP flag mutations, ICMP type and code mutations, etc.). Systems are designed to communicate with each other but it’s a needs-based, mono-thematic language similar to that as found in snow monkeys and teenage boys. Tell them the wrong things and you’ve lost them. But lose them the right way and they might give you a surprise, like access.
  • Intervention – determining the resources the target needs and either starving them, or flooding them and forcing them to behave in a way that is outside their designed response (DNS, power, cooling, unsanitized inputs, ARP replies, etc.). Do the thing the designers didn’t anticipate to ever happen and you’ll force the system into doing something insecure.

So there. Use those four. Now you know where your targets are and the tactics to try. That leaves you with a few options in your grind. If you need more specific examples on you how you would apply these four tactics to real-world, how would you take over your brother’s Instagram account, here's five common ones to get you started:

  • Use Inquest and take it from him using shoulder surfing. Just watch him type in his password without him knowing.  
  • Use Intervention and take it from him by sniffing the WiFi he uses- but again, man-in-the-middle attacks are work to set up if it's not your WiFi. Same with setting up a website that looks like Instagram for him to log into and then captures the password instead and then forwards him onto the real Instagram site so he doesn't know you took it.
  • Use Induction by having him use your phone or computer to log into Instagram. Since you control the device you can control the environment and capture anything typed into it.
  • Use Interaction and have Instagram give it to you by exploiting their process of lost passwords. That takes a little thinking, but if he's really your brother then you may have access to his email or computer or something else where you can exploit that vector.
  • Finally, put all four tactics together and mount a multi-stage attack by putting malware on his system. You need a RAT - a remote access Trojan - to take over his computer. You'll also need to know how to get it on his system without his antivirus finding it. If it's a mobile device you have even more work ahead of you. And if the malware goes rogue and infects other systems or doesn't respond the way you want it to, then you have way bigger problems.

Now I’d like to tell you don’t do things that have worked before because system designers learn from their mistakes and the mistakes made by others. Unfortunately, they don’t. It’s not like Engineering students are forced to take a competency exam in all the mistakes previously done in engineering. Oh, if only! I would totally take that class just for fun! But they don’t, so feel free to try things that worked in the past.

So that's it. No matter what you do, it will require more than just a tool. Because if was a tool that does some magic and then you get in, then you probably can’t afford that tool. Good magic isn’t cheap. Think about it: anyone who went through all the hard work to figure out how to do that wouldn't release a tool, as that info is way too profitable.

So, there’s no Windows-based instacrack tool either. Just kidding! I’m sure you already checked though. 

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Hacking an Instagram account does not happen automatically. You’ll need to read a lot of tricks and hacks before you find those that really work.

Either way, if you want to learn how to hack an Instagram account for free or monitor your kid’s social media accounts without them knowing, this article is for you.

To hack Instagram, Facebook (read this article for Facebook), or any WhatsApp account (read this article for WhatsApp), you need to be a little more patient. Many apps and websites make a fool out of people by promising them instant hacking of Instagram, which is ridiculous and not true.

It’s possible to penetrate Instagram security, but of course, with certain tricks & hacks. So this article will try to explain certain tricks & hacks which we tried out and hacked an Instagram account & password.

If you’re trying to hack Facebook or WhatsApp, then read the following

  • How to hack Facebook messages of friends
  • How to Spy on WhatsApp messages – detailed guided
  • How to hack Whatsapp girlfriend message without Victim knowing
  • How to hack Snapchat account complete guide

If you follow this article to the end, you’ll learn how to hack an Instagram account without writing a single line of code.

There is no other way of hacking Instagram automatically than the methods included in this guide.

Just know it takes patience and practice to become a hacker or hack someone’s Instagram.

Let’s get our hands dirty and dive into the tricks and hacks of hacking an Instagram account.

Contents

    • 0.1 How to Hack Instagram Account – Complete Step-by-Step Guide
  • 1 Method 1: Hack Instagram using Key-logger Applications
    • 1.1 Hack Instagram using Mspy
    • 1.2 Hack Instagram using ikeymonitor.
    • 1.3 Hack Instagram with Spyzie Applications
  • 2 Method 2: Hack Instagram Account Using Forgot Password Trick
    • 2.1 How to hack an Instagram account without a coding trick
  • 3 Method 3: Hack Instagram Password Using Phishing Method
    • 3.1 How to hack Instagram using Phishing Method
    • 3.2 How to hack Instagram account with Coding
      • 3.2.1 Creating Instagram phishing site using free hosting
    • 3. 3 How to Check Hacked Instagram Passwords
    • 3.4 Create an Instagram Phishing page without coding or hosting
    • 3.5 How to Hack Instagram Usernames And Passwords
  • 4 Hack Instagram password with Other Instagram hacker apps
    • 4.1 Hack Instagram Account password with Flexispy
    • 4.2 Hack Instagram with ighack
  • 5 Hack Instagram using Brute Force attack method – Kali Linux
    • 5.1 How to hack Instagram account with python
  • 6 Hack Instagram using Social IQ Engineering Skills
    • 6.1 Conclusion :
    • 6.2 Share this:

How to Hack Instagram Account – Complete Step-by-Step Guide

Before explaining to you the different methods of hacking Instagram accounts, I would like to present a very good software to decode all Instagram passwords simply from an email, a phone number, or a login ID.

Even if the account is protected by 2FA (double authentication) protection, PASS DECRYPTOR will be able to let you access the Instagram account without difficulty.

This software works on smartphones, tablets, and desktops.

Let’s hack a password easily now with PASS DECRYPTOR!


Method 1: Hack Instagram using Key-logger Applications

Keylogger Applications can be used to hack Instagram accounts and passwords using the keylogging feature. The Keylogging feature enables you to have access to keystrokes typed on the target device. This will help you to get hold of the target Instagram Password and username. They’re the most effective but may not be completely free.

Hack Instagram using Mspy

Unfortunately, this application is not available free of charge (the reason it’s legit). To hack Instagram using MSPY, follow the step below. Mspy is a well-known spying application for hacking Instagram accounts.

Step 1: Go to mspy.com and purchase the application package of your choice.

Step 2: The Software will send you a confirmation email along with login details.

Step 3: View Mspy Demo to understand how the software works.

Step 4: Then install the application on the target device, and you’ll access it from your control panel.

Step 5: Access the Instagram features to view messages and pictures.

Step 6: Use the keylogging feature to monitor the Instagram account without the target’s knowledge. Once you get the target’s password, log in to Instagram on your computer with the target’s username and password.


Hack Instagram using ikeymonitor.

Ikeymonitor records everything on the target device and sends you the results online. However, the keylogger application is not free of charge, though you can use the free version for three days. Follow the steps below to get started using ikeymonitor.

Step 1: Visit ikeymonitor.com & Select a free trial.

Step 2: Select device type, Yes I can get the device in my hand > and sign up with the required details as shown below.

Step 3: After signup, check your email account. You will receive a mail from ikeymonitor like this.

Step 4: Go back to ikeyMonitor window and log in. Wait for Dashboard to load. It will look like something below.

Step 5: Download and install ikeymonitor application on the target device using the window shown below. Follow steps according to your need.

Step 6: After downloading and installing the application on the target device, you can now receive logs online from your dashboard. You can also receive data from other applications as well.

Tip: If you want to only password then uninstall then install the Instagram app on your victim phone. It will log out the Instagram account ( or clear data app)


Hack Instagram with Spyzie Applications

This is another application that will help you hack Instagram passwords without a lot of hustle. The application has got keylogger features that access keystrokes on the target device. Follow the steps below if you want to hack Instagram using Spayzie.

Step 1: Create an account with spyzie at my.spyzie.com

Step 2: You’ll receive a confirmation email with login details to your dashboard

Step 3: Install the application on the target device. Follow demo if you can’t install the application.

Step 4: Once installation is successful, login to spyzie dashboard using the login details provided in the email.

Step 5: Access the keylogger feature from the right menu of the dashboard. So wait for the target to access his/her Instagram, and you’ll receive a keylogger alert on your computers. You can use these detail to access target Instagram details from a PC.

The key-logger does its part of getting the target’s password for you. once you have the password, you can use it to access the target’s Instagram account on your computer and monitor his/her activities.


Method 2: Hack Instagram Account Using Forgot Password Trick

How to hack an Instagram account without a coding trick

This method is going to show you how to hack Instagram account password of someone by only knowing your target username and without knowing how to code.

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to hack Instagram without Coding.

Step 1: Open Instagram Account: Tap the multicolored Instagram app icon. This will open your Instagram home page if you’re logged in.

Step 2: Tap on Menu and select “Add Account “

Step 3: The login page of Instagram will open, enter the username of someone you want to hack, and since you don’t know their password, select Forgot Password.

Step 4: Verify it’s your account. Choose the SMS Option and enter your phone number.

Step 5: You’ll receive a password reset link in the form of an SMS to change the Instagram password.

Step 6: Open the SMS and click the link to reset the Instagram password from the Change Password section.

Step 7: Enter the new password of your choice and log in to the Instagram Account.

Congratulations, you have successfully hacked an Instagram account password.


Method 3: Hack Instagram Password Using Phishing Method

Phishing is one of the most popular hacking tips and tricks online that will help you figure out someone’s Instagram password.

To hack Instagram account using phishing, you’ve to create a fake Instagram login page and send its link to a target user.

When the target logs in, the private login details are saved to a file, and the victim is redirected to the original Instagram page.

Below is an example of a phishing Instagram Login Page. If you want to tell it’s a fake page, just look at its URL. It’s not instagram.com.

How to hack Instagram using Phishing Method

There are two ways you can hack an Instagram account using the phishing method:-

The first method is for geeks or programmers, and the other can be helpful to those who can’t write any line of code.


Method 1:

How to hack Instagram account with Coding
Creating Instagram phishing site using free hosting

This method is very helpful if you have ever designed a website, or perhaps you’re a fast learner, if not use the 2nd method to crack the Instagram password.

In this method, you’re required to have some basic coding knowledge to help you create a phishing website.

Requirements of this method:-

  • A hosting Account (there are a lot of free hosting )
  • Instagram phishing page script ( code )
  • Time, patience, and reasoning
  • website building knowledge

Step 1: Create a website host (visit 5gbfree. com )

Step 2: Navigate to the Hosting plan and Select Free hosting. Sign Up with your details as required. (You’ll need to verify the email to continue)

Step 3: You’ll receive an email with login details after verification. ( Remember it may take a few hours for your account to be created )

Step 4: After Login, select the option “I will choose your free subdomain” and fill in the details as shown below.

Step 5:Create an Account, and you’ll be taken to a website dashboard.

Step 6: Verify your email address and open the account dashboard. Select the “Go to Cpanel” option next to your website name.

Step 7: Go to ‘File Manager ‘, you’ll be automatically taken to the login page ( login with details from email ).

Sometimes it fails to login,To fix this, Go to “FTP Details” From your cpanel and change password . Try logging in again from the new password.

Step 8: After logging in, select “public_html ” and delete everything under it. Click Upload at the top bar.

Step 9: Download this Zip file, Extract it onto your PC, Upload it as shown below, and select the tick button.

Step 10: After a successful upload, you’ll see something like that below.

Congratulations, you have just created a successful phishing page to hack the Instagram Passwords of your target.

How to Check Hacked Instagram Passwords

To check hacked Instagram accounts, Go to File Manager > password.html file. You’ll get the target usernames and passwords of those who used your phishing link.

That’s it. So just add /password.html after your phishing website, and you will see a list of your hacked accounts


Method 2 :

Create an Instagram Phishing page without coding or hosting

In this section, we shall use z-shadow. info to create an Instagram Phishing Page. Follow the steps below to see how this hack works.

Step 1: Create an account with z-shadow.info.

Step 2: After Logging in, Your account homepage will look like that below.

Step 3 : Scroll down and select page 3 > Number 35 ( Instagram ) > Click ‘ English> Press Ctrl+C (to copy the link )

Step 4: Open a new window and press Ctrl+V to paste the link in Url Tab.

How to Hack Instagram Usernames And Passwords

To see the number of victims hacked, go back to your account homepage and refresh ‘ Total Victims ‘ under your account profile picture. Go to the top bar and Click My Victims Tab > Click to Continue.

Isn’t it fun and easy to hack Instagram’s password and account now?

How does it work?

Just copy the link from step 3 and send it as WhatsApp or SMS message to a target, persuading them to click. Congratulations, you must have hacked your first Instagram Account today.


Hack Instagram password with Other Instagram hacker apps

Hack Instagram Account password with Flexispy

Flexispy is another keylogger application that can be used to hack Instagram account passwords.

Like other Keylogger apps, the app is installed on the target device to monitor keystrokes on the device. Follow the procedure below to hack Instagram Account password with Flexispy.

Step 1: Install Flexispy application on target iPhone or Android device without them knowing.

Step 2: Login into portal.flexispy.com from your phone or computer and start monitoring activities of the target device

The Keylogger facility tracks every key punched by the iPhone user. You get a detailed report. In case he accesses Instagram, you get the notifications on your phone.

You are able to track the target’s keystrokes. Using this information, you can access his / her Instagram account.

Hack Instagram with ighack

Ighack is a secure Instagram hacker app that allows you to hack Instagram password-free.

The best part of the application is that it does not require any survey or download. It is available free on the internet.

In addition to being free to use, this app is compatible with every device. The application has a reputation for being authentic and untraceable.

Step 1: Visit ighack.net and click start hack

Step 2: Enter the target Instagram username and click next step.

Step 3: Allow the application to do the rest. The ighack server establishes contact with the Instagram server and searches for the password in the Instagram database by matching the username ID.

Step 4: On extraction of the data, the installed software program automatically decrypts the data.

Step 5: The system delivers the password to you and removes all traces of the activities done by the system. Hence, no one can track their way back.


Hack Instagram using Brute Force attack method – Kali Linux

How to hack Instagram account with python

This method is quite technical, however, if you follow the steps up to the bottom, you’ll be assured of getting positive results at least.

The method takes you through some quick steps to hack an Instagram account with python and brute force attack Kali Linux method.

To use this method, I recommend you first look through the requirements below and follow the step-by-step procedures as required.

Requirements for hacking Instagram using Brute Force method

You’ll need to have Kali Linux – the hacker’s OS on your computer to proceed. You can download Kali Linux from here and install it in less than an hour.

How does the Brute Force method work?

Brute Force method can hack Instagram by using a program that continuously inputs passwords into the target’s Instagram account. Sometimes it works some times it fails, remember it takes a lot of time so you have to be a bit patient if you want results.

Pro: It is easy to use, lots of beginners can use it
Con: It is a BruteForce attack, there is also a chance of failing

Step 1: Download this program https://github.com/Ethical-h5CK3R/Instagram.git from git repository as shown below to your computer.

Next, you’ll need to unzip the file, to do this open your command terminal and type in this command chmod -R 755 Instagram && cd Instagram

Step 2: Executing the program. To open the program, type the command ls to see what is inside the folder.

Next, execute program instagram.py by typing this command in the terminal python instagram.py. You’ll get an error similar to that in the screenshot below.

This happens because we didn’t give the program the txt file, since this is a brute force method of hacking Instagram, we need to give the program a list of passwords that it can use.

Step 3: Get the password txt file. To do this, google ‘daniel miessler passwords github ‘ and select the first result. see screenshot below.

Under GitHub > Go to passwords > Choose one txt file with at least 10 million passwords, the bigger the better.

To save the file, copy the passwords into the text editor and save it as .txt in the Instagram folder which should be in the home directory.

Step 4: Time to hack your Instagram account. Open terminal and type command: cd Instagram.

Under the Instagram directory type: ls to see the files under it. Confirm that our txt file is there and continue with the procedure below. To execute program type :

python instagram.py Username Thetextfile.txt

At this step the Brute Force attack has started, it will say the attempts and what password it is currently trying. You’ll need to be patient enough before you’re successful.

If you get errors like Core. tor import TorManager, then install mechanize with: pip install mechanize, install requests with: pip install requests, install Tor with: sudo apt-get install tor

Hack Instagram using Social IQ Engineering Skills

If you want to be a clever hacker, you’ve to be wise when getting along with all these Instagram hacks and tricks. For example, the way you share Instagram phishing site links shouldn’t be direct.

Use tricks such as getting a free recharge card on your phone by signing up at this link below. If you’ve a target who has an Instagram account linked to Facebook, you can hack a Facebook account using the same tricks and hacks.

Conclusion :

Did you find this article helpful ? You can check the video above for more information .

   

This article is solely intended for education purposes, any misuse of the information shall not be the responsibility of the author nor Ugtechmag.com .

What to do if someone tries to access your Facebook or Instagram

A notification pops up on the smartphone screen: "We detected an unusual login attempt from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. " The first reaction is panic, especially if you live in, say, Vladivostok. What could it be? System failure? Or is someone from the other side of the world really encroaching on your account?

There is no way to panic in such a situation - this will only play into the hands of the burglars. So that you can remain calm and survive this incident with minimal losses, we will arm you with knowledge: we tell you what the matter might be and how to act.

What could have happened

First, let's figure out how a stranger could gain access to your account at all. There are several options here.

Data leak and wildcard attack

A third party site where you registered might have been leaked. Having acquired a list of logins, e-mail addresses and passwords, scammers use them for a substitution attack, that is, they try to enter stolen credentials on many sites. Unfortunately, many people set the same passwords to protect their accounts in different services - this is what criminals are counting on.

Alternatively, your Facebook or Instagram credentials may have been leaked from the app you trusted them to. For example, in June last year, thousands of passwords from Instagram accounts leaked to the network, the owners of which used the Social Captain service to buy likes and followers. It turned out that he did not encrypt customer data, and anyone could get access to it. It is reasonable to assume that many users of the service have since experienced hacking attempts.

Phishing

It may also be that some time ago you fell for phishing, and your login with a password fell into the hands of scammers directly. They clicked on some link, and on the page that opened, very similar to the Facebook or Instagram login screen, they entered their credentials. So they ended up with the criminal. For example, most recently, our experts discovered a phishing campaign in which victims were lured to phishing pages by the threat of blocking their Facebook account due to copyright infringement.

Password theft

Your password may have been stolen by malware you picked up somewhere. Many Trojans have a built-in keylogger, a program that registers keystrokes on the keyboard. All logins and passwords that the victim enters, the keylogger directly passes into the hands of attackers.

Access token stolen

Someone may have stolen your access token. So that you don't have to enter a password every time you log into Facebook or Instagram, it saves a small piece of information needed to log in to your computer, which is called a token or access token. If an attacker steals the current token, he will be able to log into the account without a username and password.

Tokens can be stolen in different ways. Sometimes this is done through vulnerabilities in Facebook itself - for example, in 2018, attackers were able to get access tokens to 50 million Facebook accounts. Also, attackers can use browser extensions to steal tokens.

Login from someone else's device

It's possible that you logged into Facebook or Instagram from someone else's device - at a party, in an Internet cafe, in a hotel lobby, and so on - and did not log out after that. Or, for example, they forgot to log out of their account on a device that they had already sold or donated. Now someone has discovered your oversight and logged into your account.

False alarm (phishing again)

Your account may not have been hacked at all, but they are trying with a fake suspicious login notification. This is the same phishing that we talked about above, but a slightly different version of it. Instead of the threat of blocking, scammers can use fake suspicious login notifications with a link to phishing sites similar to the login page. Attackers expect that the victim in a panic will go to a fake site and enter their username and password there.

And what to do?

We have sorted out the possible causes, now it's time to act. To get started, log into your account - but in any case not through the link from the notification (as we already know, it can lead to a phishing site), but through the mobile application or by entering the address in the browser manually. If the password does not match and you can no longer log into your account, refer to the detailed instructions on what to do if your account has already been hijacked, which we published earlier.

If you are still allowed into your account, go to your account settings and verify the authenticity of the notification. For each social network, the path to the desired settings item will be different - see how this is done on Facebook and Instagram. Then go to the “Account Logins” section: if there are no suspicious entries there, then everything is in order, and the message about the hack was still phishing.

If you really see a suspicious one in the list of logins to your account, then it's time to hurry up to take protective measures - timely actions will help soften the blow:

  • Log out of your account on all devices. On Instagram, you will have to manually end each session in menu Account Logins . And on Facebook, this can be done with a single click in the Security and login section in the settings. This will reset the access tokens.
  • Make sure that the correct phone number and email address are specified in the account settings: attackers could change the data so that the link or code to change the password is sent to them. If they managed to do this, change it back to yours.
  • Set a new password that is strong and one that you don't use anywhere else. If you're not sure you can remember it, save it in a password manager. By the way, at the same time the program will help you come up with a reliable combination.
  • Turn on two-factor authentication to make it harder for attackers to break into your accounts, even if they know your password.
  • After that, be sure to check all your devices with a reliable antivirus to make sure that they are free of malware. Attention to security settings along with good protection will make your account your fortress.
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Hundreds of Instagram users complained about account hacking

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A lot of people reported this month that their Instagram* accounts were hacked, with many of the attacks almost identical to each other. Users were kicked out of their accounts, and when they tried to log back in, they found that their name, profile photo, contact information, and description had been changed.

Often, attackers changed their profile picture to a Disney or Pixar cartoon character, and the account was linked to mail with a Russian top-level domain. On some accounts, the hackers even managed to disable two-factor authentication.

mashable.com

A number of users have reported Mashable being hacked, although many more complaints have been registered on Reddit and Twitter. It is noteworthy that the hackers did not add new publications to the hacked accounts and did not delete old ones.

Although there is a page in the Instagram* help center about account hacking, according to Mashable's sources, it turned out to be useless. "All this mess that Instagram * sends you so you can get your account back is laughable and is a collection of broken links and automatic emails that do nothing," - wrote one of the victims of the attackers Abigail Novak (Abigail Nowak).


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