Stolen accounts on Instagram
The problem seems to be more important than it seemed at first.
We thought it was something specific but no. More and more Instagram users are reporting that their account has been stolen. Some even had two-step verification activated on IG.
Faced with this problem, the support of the social network is not helping users who have suffered this theft. Yes, there are users who have recovered their accounts but after struggling through a long and arduous process, with IG .
What happened to users when their Instagram account was stolen?:
The social network kicks them out of their account. When they try to access again, entering their username and password, they are not accepted and the app tells them that they are wrong.
But the problem does not end there, since when trying to recover your password by email, the steps to follow to recover the password are sent to an email that does not belong to the user. Usually ending in .ru.
Instagram account theft
This is a clear sign of a stolen account and, surely, lost forever.
Thieves only limit themselves to changing the password and email, as well as the avatar, but the rest remains the same. In the profile image they put an image of a Disney or Pixar character.
That is why we encourage you to change your password to a VERY SECURE one and activate two-step verification. We have to make it more and more difficult for these account takers.
Phishing, attack on users, security breach
It does not seem that this is linked to Phishing techniques or any other type of attack against the users themselves through which they obtain the access data to their accounts.
It is also not known if they are related to a security problem that Instagram suffered in the past or to a bug that allows security measures to be bypassed. What does make you think is that it is due to a leak or some other problem of this type, since there are users who have seen their account stolen even with "two-step verification" activated. That means that the phone number of those people has been leaked. Terminal that hackers cannot access .
Let's see if Instagram comes to the fore and gives us some kind of information about it.
We'll be attentive and we'll tell you.
News source: Mashable
