Please Instagram users, change your passwords and setup multi-factor verification on your accounts to protect them today.
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An Instagram hack hit millions of accounts, and victims’ phone numbers are now for sale
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A bug that exposed users’ contact information affected a far greater number of accounts than Instagram originally said. The bug, which appears to have been responsible for Selena Gomez’s account being hacked this week, allowed hackers to scrape email addresses and contact information for millions of accounts, Instagram said today. (It has since been fixed.) While the company first said the hack was limited to holders of verified accounts, it said today that non-verified users had been affected as well.
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