Privacy News Instagram fixes bug which caused 6 million accounts, including celebrities', to be hacked

[Dima007]

Photo sharing app Instagram was hit by a bug last week, which resulted in six million accounts being hacked.

The bug, which as since been fixed, allowed hackers to get users' information such as e-mail addresses and contact details, Instagram's co-founder and chief technology officer Mike Krieger said in a note posted on the site on Sept 1.

It affected both verified and non-verified accounts, The Verge website reported.

Hacked details were posted on a database called Doxagram, which let people search for users' contact details for US$10 (S$13.56).

Read more: Instagram fixes bug which caused 6 million accounts, including celebrities', to be hacked

 

[Windows Defender Shill]

it's not like Facebook (Instagram) has a large budget from selling all our personal details that they could invest in security.

 

[Fritz]

it's not like Facebook (Instagram) has a large budget from selling all our personal details that they could invest in security.

Right, it's just a mom & pop shop after all, I guess we can be happy if they remember to lock the doors at night.

 

[Maliek]

Today, you can't rely on services for data hosting in the cloud. is a very bad mix (your life + networks)
will there always these bugs, and your life will be sold.

A big problem with cloud is, just one bug can cause a huge breach... I think we need to bring data not more and more to the public cloud but instead to a private cloud. Where you as a person being responsible for your own data.