Hundreds of Instagram Users Say Their Accounts Have Been Compromised By What Appears To Be a Coordinated Attack (mashable.com) 51
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.
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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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Yes, they're cheaping out on security at every level, from staffing to decision making. This is often reported on as "ageism" but it's not just about age. It's about malleability. The technology exists, but can't be deployed safely or maintained reasonably by the type of fresh-faced college grads who won't notice that their CEO is selling backdoor access to customer data on the black market.
russia (Score:1)
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In Latvia, no instagram, only potatogram and many pictures of potato (often same potato)
Impressive (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I didn't think it was possible for a web hack to make changes to a machine's BIOS.
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While I lament the incompetence of today journalists, they do still generally understand the difference between bios and BIOS. An apostrophe you say? Nay good sir, its a pluralism, not a possessive.
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No problem at all, it's called an operating system update firmware hack. They simply get your OS or more accurately M$'s OS to hack your system and rewrite the firmware on not only the motherboard but all hard disk drives, now why the hell do you think M$ wanted compulsory operating system updates and you are required to have a uniquely identifiable computer. So one security letter latter and you BIOS does what they want it to do, within minutes on Windows 10 and Windows 7 or 8.1 who knows how long they wil
Newsworthy (Score:2)
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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Wow -- "hundreds" of users out of a service that has 100's of millions? Is this really newsworthy?
When each of those hundreds has a few thousand followers, it becomes newsworthy. Even if I think Instagram needs to die.
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Probably many of instagram's competitors believes the same thing, not for good reasons of course, just competition. I wonder, how much does it cost to hire Russian hackers to attack your competitors companies, to cripple them. Hey, due to the bullshit hostility between Russia and the US, no one is ever going to investigate it properly, as long as you are paying from the US to hackers in Russia, who will attack a US company in the US, investigation is stopped dead, with the Democrats screaming Russia, Russi
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Yeah, but that's just the ones who both noticed and reported it.
Isn't instagram facebook (Score:2)
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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Venmo and their parent company PayPal (I still don't understand why people are migrating from PayPal to Venmo, it's got fewer features) do the same thing.
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Obnoxiously is a separate login and detached ecosystem
Venmo and their parent company PayPal (I still don't understand why people are migrating from PayPal to Venmo, it's got fewer features) do the same thing.
As annoying as that might be- it probably saved people getting compromised in more than one network in this instance.
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Assuming that any of what you said was true, how would anti-Russian propaganda which does not mention your president hurt your president?
Roger Stone (Score:2)
received many emails from Instagram (Score:1)
asking me if I needed to reset my password for my Instagram account. Been happening for a month or more
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You mean the "having problems logging in?" emails.. yeah.
Meh. (Score:2)