Security News Almost 500 million Instagram users had their data scraped, hackers claim

[Viking]

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https://cybernews.com/news/instagram-user-data-scraping/

If the threat actor is telling the truth, data from a quarter of all Instagram users is available on a cybercriminal forum.

On November 10th, a threat actor listed a dataset for sale on a notorious hacker forum, claiming it consists of records of 489 million Instagram users. Instagram has over two billion monthly active users, which means that if proven correct, the incident affects a quarter of all users.

The hacker shared a sample of over 100 records, giving a preview of the information they claim to have acquired. The scraped data includes both public and private information, such as:

• Username
• Name
• Email address
• Biography
• External URL
• Follower and following counts
• Location
• Account creation date
• Account category (e.g., business, influencer)
• Targeted username for the scrape
• User ID and scrape ID

 

[jackuars]

I'm not worried, I'm pretty sure my Instagram data is only worth about 17 cents on the dark web. Hope the hacker gets a good deal, though.

Also I'm pretty sure my 17 followers aren't worth hacking.