Doxagram: It is now official, the Instagram suffered huge data breach and according to the latest information an unknown hacker managed to intercept personal data from over 6 million Instagram accounts.
Just yesterday, it was reported that Instagram had patched a critical API vulnerability that allowed an attacker to gain access to phone numbers and email addresses. post officey for high profile verified accounts.
However, Instagram hack seems to be more serious than originally believed.
More than 6 millions of Instagram users (politicians, athletes, companies, and many others) can find their profile information at Instagram, such as email addresses and phone numbers, on a website called Doxagram.
All the above information is available for sale to any interested party….
The Instagram hacker launched the Doxagram service as a search service for Instagram, where anyone can search for stolen information to 10 dollars per account.
The news comes three days after Selena Gomez's Instagram account was leaked. Selena Gomez has more than 125 million friends, and on data που διέρρευσαν συμπεριλαμβάνονται γυμνές φωτογραφίες του πρώην φίλου της Justin Bieber.
However, Instagram did not confirm whether the recent data breach relates to the leakage of Selena Gomez's account.
The company had already notified all verified users of the service by e-mail and encouraged them to be careful if they received any suspicious or unrecognized phone call, text message, or e-mail.
With e-mail addresses and phone numbers running freely on the internet, the next step of hackers could have been to use this information in conjunction with social engineering techniques to get more information, even in other services.
Instagram users would do well to use the control immediately ID cardς δύο παραγόντων στους λογαριασμούς τους, σε συνδυασμό με έναν ισχυρό κωδικό πρόσβασης.
