How to secure your Instagram account

You have surely heard of cases of theft of Instagram accounts in which some people have seen how unwanted content was published through their profiles. If this worries you, and you're an active user on social networks and the Internet, you've also heard of the verification of an account in two steps, a security measure that prevents others from taking control of your account. Well, this concept can now be applied to Instagram, which integrates this barrier to prevent third parties from hijacking accounts and posting inappropriate content.

two-step verification is to add a second barrier to the typical application login. Thus, it will not only suffice to enter the email address or username and the password, it will also be necessary to verify this step with a security code that Instagram sends in the form of SMSto user. This will prevent hackers and cybercriminals who have obtained your username and password data from being able to access it from other devices. Now, to apply this new barrier it is necessary to activate it as follows:

1. The first thing to do is make sure you have this new security feature, which is slowly landing in the Instagram For this only Click on the profile tab, access the Settings menu and, there, find the Account section, where the option Two-Step Authentication should be listed
2. The next step is to activate this feature, by checking the option request security code.
3. At this point Instagram prompts the user to enter their phone number. This requirement is mandatory, since it is the safe way for the social network to send security codes to confirm the identity of the person accessing the user account.
4. Once the phone number has been entered and confirmed, just wait a few seconds until receive the security code Unlike usual As with other apps, you need to enter the six digits of this number manually on Instagram, where a screen allows this process.

In this way, Instagram already has a secondary, personal and secure channel to confirm the user's identity and allow access to your account. Something hackers won't be able to bypass.

But what if I lose my phone or can't receive the SMS?

In case you lose your phone or you cannot receive the message SMS with the security number that verifies that you are the user of your Instagram account, the application has another useful security barrier. These are the security codes, a series of eight codes that the application generates to that the user can access his account without receiving the aforementioned SMS message.

On the same Two-Factor Authentication screen, the application displays these eight codes. Below them, there are several buttons that allow you to copy them or even take a screenshot. The goal is to keep these codes safe , outside the mobile, to have access to them in case of not being able to verify the identity in another wayThus, by entering any of these eight codes as a security code, the user recovers their account