Instagram Data Leak: 17.5 Million Users Exposed

No well, what a day with that cybersecurity thing. Just when we are worried about the vulnerability in telephone line registration, we find out that There was another massive personal data leak, but this time on Instagram.

Oh yes, they report that personal data of 17.5 million users were exposed after a massive leak of which the cause or origin is still unknown.

Massive data leak on Instagram

Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes originally reported the data leak on Instagram. Según Cyber Security News, All this information is already circulating on the Dark Web and they even put it up for sale.

The data that was exposed was the following:

• User name
• Email
• Telephone numbers
• Physical addresses

Identity theft, phishing and social engineering, These are some of the problems that could arise with users whose data was exposed. We already said it,there were 17.5 million! A very worrying figure.

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What to do if your Instagram data was stolen?

The aforementioned portal indicates that, in effect, a seller identified as Subkek offers personal data massively on the Dark Web, and that it would have been stolen in the last quarter of the year.

Malwarebytes reported the information to offer their services, since they have a link where you can check if your account was affected and help you with that. Here is the link.

Now, since they surely charge for it, they also You can check that there are no login attempts from your account or you have received emails that pretend to be from Instagram or are from Instagram.

Several users have reported that they have already received a notification that they need to change their password, which reveals that there is someone trying to access it.

Given this, It is recommended to immediately enable two-step authentication, change the password to a very secure one (with difficult combinations and no names, dates or symbolic words), be aware of emails or messages that are related to Instagram, review login attempts and check everything you have linked to your Instagram account to monitor it as well.