Hundreds of Instagram users’ accounts have been hacked
A number of people are reporting a strange Instagram hack: after being logged out of their account, a user gets a message that their username doesn’t exist. The photo and handle are changed, as are the phone number and email address associated with the account. The new email address belongs to a .ru domain.
Hundreds of Instagram users have similarly reported being hacked over the past month. In many cases, their profile image has been changed to a Pixar or Disney character. Mashable reports that more than a hundred people have experienced the issue over the past day or so (based on experiences shared on Twitter, seeing as they can’t talk about it on their Instagram accounts).
Instagram told Mashable it had not seen an uptick in hacked accounts across its social network, but looking at da...