There's a new report about a wide spread compromise affecting hundreds of users on Instagram, who have reported about their account being hacked.
According to the reports, the victims claim that they were logged out of their account, and their profile details altered by the hackers, with their avatars mostly changed to a Disney or Pixar toons.
As Instagram offers a fun way to explore your creative side in photo shooting and sharing with friends and public alike, it exposes you to a lot of risks around your personal information. The following steps will help you to ensure security for your Instagram account and avoid getting hacked.
Firstly, if you don’t want your account to make the photos you share on the platform public and available to everyone, there's settings for private profile.
Simply go to your Instagram profile window, and click on the three dots in the right corner. Then at the bottom you’ll see the Private Account option, turn this security setting ON, and that's it. Once activated, all media items you share will only been seen by those who follow you online, non will be made available publicly.
Now, back to the business of securing your Instagram account against hacking. The two-factor authentication system offers extra layer of protection to your account, in any case hackers somehow cracks your password, your account will still be inaccessible, as it will need a second factor of authentication before granting them access.
The second factor could be any of these: a one-time code send to your mobile, or a notification to confirm you via Android system. And you’ll be required to confirm it any time you want to login to your Instagram account from a new location or device.
To turn on two-factor authentication from the mobile app, simply click on the Options icon and from the menu on your profile, you’ll see a shortlink for “Two-Factor Authentication” to turn it on and set up using your phone.
It also offer alternative requirements, should you lose your phone or don’t have access to your the mobile number, you can use the Backup Codes. With each Instagram account having five unique codes, which can be accessed in the same settings where you activated the Two-Factor Authentication.
Asides this, it’s still essential to set a strong, unique password for your Instagram account, and to desist from allowing access to apps that are not trustworthy as these apps can have access to your personal information, so could be a potential risk.
Thank you for these two tips. Because I use business account, it can't be changed to private. The risk is higher and also with what at stake with the content of my business on the line. I will be so afraid if my account got hacked by competitor for example. I have read about this case where people can easily hack other instagram account without our password : https://www.cocospy.com/blog/how-to-hack-someones-instagram-without-their-password.html - I tried my best to prevent worst thing from happening like what you said, using two factors authentication. Hopefully Instagram increase their security so we do not need to worry about this anymore.
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