This app launches this feature to prevent User ID-password from getting leak
This app launches this feature to prevent User ID-password from getting leak
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Instagram has breached the data once again. Instagram comes inside Facebook and in the case of data leaks, Facebook is constantly surrounded by questions. Users data is leaked through third-party tool. Social Media Booting Service Social Captain is a third-party tool that helps in increasing the followers of Instagram users. Thousands of Instagram usernames and passwords have been leaked through this tool. There is danger on these users and hackers can take advantage of it wrongly. The most dangerous thing about this data leak is that both the ID and password of the users have become public. According to a report by Tech Crunch, this tool named Social Captain stored the linked user accounts of Instagram in plain text without encryption. In order to use Social Captain, Instagram users have to link their account to it. 

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An account link occurs when you allow the app to access your data. According to the report, one of the drawbacks of the website is that anyone can access the social media captain's user profile and without Instagram, it can be accessed only with the login credentials. The security researcher has revealed this Instagram data leak, they have told that this data has 10000 uses S includes the account. Of these, 70 accounts are premium, meaning they pay for using the service. After this report of Tech Crunch, the social captain has confirmed that he has fixed this flaw. The security researcher also told Tech Crunch. It is said that 4700 users had complete Instagram and password in this spreadsheet of social captain. That is, anyone could use all these usage accounts.

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How to avoid such data leaks, Data leakage through third-party apps is common nowadays. Usually, there are many apps on social media websites like Facebook or Instagram which have nothing to do with Facebook. But if you use it, they ask you for Facebook or Insta credentials. You do not have to give anything, just allow it. Since you have allowed them to take data, then they take your data and store it with you. With this, if you trust Facebook once, then how will you trust these third party apps. If you ever use any such app on social media or smartphone that gives you the option of Log in Wiht XYZ, then you need to take more care. You should avoid allowing any application to access the same information.

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