An Instagram bug bans thousands of users temporarily
The past Wednesday A significant number of users were expelled from the Instagram photography social network , preventing them from entering all day and receiving a message about a password change on their respective accounts Something that left them without service to all of them and with the scare in the body. But no one should be scared. And it is that it is a system failure, and not an attack that has jeopardized the privacy of the users
In this way, and during the day of the past December 2nd, many users encountered a strange message when accessing your application filters. It indicated that they had logged out (log out) and that their password had changedSomething that triggered alerts about a possible attack that would compromise the accounts of thousands of affected users. All this preventing the normal operation of the application, so that the affected users could not publish photos or perform other tasks in which it is necessary identify yourself as a user of said social network
Well, Instagram herself has confirmed through her account on the social network Twitter that it is just a failure He did it at the end of the day, thus informing and reassuring many of those who thought that their accounts and photos had fallen into the hands of hackers, who could be doing all sorts of misdeeds through their hijacked profiles.
The reality is that a service failure triggered the logout and password change message Some information false both in content and in its reason for being. And it is that, according to Instagram, no password has been changed among its users And, Of course, your security and privacy have not been affected at any time, so you can breathe easy.
But more importantly, the service is back up and running as usual, allowing users kicked out during the go back to your accounts and applications. All you have to do is re-sign in with your username and password usually. Of course, Instagram announced that the login process could be delayed a little longer than usualduring the system restoration, and it is that they still have to balance everything that this failure has distorted.
Users' fear of a kidnapping or theft of their accounts is justified It would not be the first time that an attacker manages to get hold of a bunch of Instagram accounts to post on them inappropriate content or spam that ends up arriving to the followers of said accounts. A striking case was that of the shakes and fruits from a couple of years ago, although it seems that the service has remained safe since then. In any case, it is advisable to keep your password safe and avoid signing with your user data in other unofficial applications, even more so when your own Instagram has been cured in he alth, preventing the use of its API (services) openly through other tools .
