Bad news for Instagram users, username-password of thousands leaked
Bad news for Instagram users, username-password of thousands leaked
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Thousands of users of Facebook's popular photo-sharing app Instagram have got their username, password and other information leaked. Hackers of social media booting service Social Captain have targeted Instagram users to increase their followers. Hackers are using this username and password to try to increase their followers. This popular photo-sharing app Instagram owned by Facebook is considered a very secure app. According to a TechCrunch report, the social captain has unencrypted the details of Instagram users' accounts and converted them to plain text. Let's know in full detail

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No social captain on this website will be able to access the Instagram user's profile and login credentials without logging in on their profile. A security researcher told TechCrunch that he has details of 10,000 scrapped user accounts in a spreadsheet. Of these, 70 accounts belong to paid and premium users. Instagram has stated on this security breech that it is a case of incorrectly storing log-in credentials. Investigation in this matter continues and we will encourage people not to share their passwords and personal information with people you do not know.

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In May last year, credentials of millions of Instagram users were leaked, including many high profile influencers. These influencers included music, food bloggers and social media influencers, etc. According to reports, records of 49 million Instagram users were leaked last year. Accounts details of 6 million Instagram influencers were leaked due to a bug in 2017, including many Hollywood stars. Hackers are targeting users of social media platforms. Data of many users of Facebook and WhatsApp have been leaked last year. At the beginning of this year, Instagram users are facing this alleged data leak.

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