Security News > 2017 > August > Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users (The Hackers News)
2017-08-31 01:18
Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many "high-profile" users. The 700 million-user-strong, Facebook-owned photo sharing service has currently notified all of its verified users that an unknown hacker has accessed some of their profile data, including email addresses and phone numbers, using a bug
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