How do hackers hack Instagram?

Users spend many hours throughout the day and night on  Instagram, and many people make all their purchases from the pages on this social network, addition, users do a lot of other things which are related to their business through Instagram, and if their Instagram is hacked by hackers, they may lose all their source of income or important personal information, as you know, hackers are very interested in doing things that are forbidden to them, and they do their best to find ways to achieve all the unattainable.

Most social networks, as well as large sites, reward people who can find and report  security  holes in their system, as well as bugs, and Instagram did the same for someone who was able to spot vulnerabilities; he was awarded a $30,000 prize for finding the  social network security  hole and giving it to its owners, other people have made efforts to find security holes on Instagram as well, which we are going to discuss in more detail below.

What is Instagram?

Instagram  is a social networking service for sharing photos and videos of users, which was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger; it is an American social network owned by Facebook, in this social network, you can use a hashtag, location, accounts, tops section and filters to find photos, videos, and various pages to reach your destination, Instagram Explorer is a place where you can see the posts that other users have been interested in. If those posts seem interesting to you, you can share them with your friends with just one click, Instagram also adds to its capabilities in each update, and ultimately, makes it impossible for users of this social network to spend a day without spending time on it.

Instagram award to those who find and report the security holes of this network:

As we mentioned before,  Instagram  asks all users to notify them if they find a security hole and receive a lot of money as a gift from them, which has caused all people, including, Hackers try their best to find them, other people who have tried in this field to solve this issue and find the security holes of this network, was an Indian  security  researcher named Laxman Muthiyah, he looked into cases where people had forgotten their passwords and took a closer look at whether he could find a security hole in this field or not when different people forget their password, they can request a new one, which will be sent to their email or phone number. By entering the verification code that acts as a password, they can log in to their Instagram account.

Muthiyah checked all these cases and observed that  Instagram  gives the user 10 minutes to enter the submitted code, therefore the user must request a new code again and the previous submitted code will be invalidated, he concluded that if a hacker could enter this 6-digit code, he could access the accounts of different people and steal people's information, and in general, the entire account will be stolen and the information it contains will be abused by hackers, they can also access people's cell phone numbers in a variety of ways and use it easily if the code is sent to a cell phone number, of course, it should be noted that Muthiyah came to the conclusion that if he enters the code incorrectly more than several times, the code will be invalidated before the end of 10 minutes, but he also came up with a solution to this problem and realized that he could use different devices to connect, the code would not be invalidated before 10 minutes, and he could enter a lot of code, finally the account will be hacked, he made this discovery public, and we should thank him for finding this security hole.

Other ways to hack Instagram:

- Use of Keylogger by hackers:

In fact,  Keyloggers  are malicious programs used by hackers to steal people's information, including their passwords and other information the program is sent by hackers to different people's devices and records all user activity, including everything they type on their keyboard, and finally, hackers can easily access all the information, including passwords to Instagram and so on.

To prevent the entry of such malicious programs, you must follow the  security  tips properly and avoid opening all phishing emails that may be sent to you to infect your device, so that your device cannot easily be accessible to Hackers, they may also use infected programs to gain access to your device and eventually hack your Instagram account, to prevent this, you can download all the programs you need from reputable sources and update your programs regularly so that if the old version has some security holes, with the help of the new version, you can get rid of all security holes.

Another way for hackers to spread viruses into devices is to generate infected links, and as soon as you click on it, your device will be infected. Hackers will hack your  Instagram account with a password recorded via Keylogger immediately. As a result, we recommend to all Internet users to pay more attention to all available security points, you should not click on any email or link, and you have to also pay attention to the importance of choosing a strong and safe password, in which uppercase, lowercase, numbers and different characters should be used to make it harder to guess so that in the end, fewer hackers can access your Instagram account. Be aware of downloading from unknown sources, it can be hacking apps to undermine your Insta account.

- Phishing attacks can eventually cause Instagram to be hacked:

In these attacks, you will receive an email that appears to be valid, but in fact, it has the purpose of hacking your account, and there is no purpose other than this in sending that email; for example, you may receive a fake email from Instagram with only a small difference in its address, and all the elements in it will give you the feeling that this email was sent to you by Instagram, through these emails, people are usually asked for details about their account, such as username and password, and in the end, you may not be suspected of anything at all, and all your information will be quickly passed to the hackers, and after a while, you will realize your carelessness, and you may have to pay high costs for this, therefore, to prevent such things from happening, you should pay more attention to the sender's e-mail address, and if you encounter a suspicious item, you have to delete the e-mail immediately, and you should never give away your personal information easily.

- Hacking Wi-Fi and accessing all information transmitted and received by Wi-Fi:

Hackers can easily hack Wi-Fi passwords and finally access all the information sent by other people while using Wi-Fi and the information received. Finally, all user accounts as well.

Last word:

In addition to the ways that hackers can use to hack users'  Instagram, there are other ways that will eventually cause people's accounts to be out of their reach, by sending requests for money from users or upload posts contrary to your beliefs, so all you have to do is master the ways hackers use to hack Instagram and try to  increase the security  of your system which ultimately increases the security of your Instagram account, so no one can access your Instagram account, the importance of this task appears when your personal information are safe, because in order to log in to your account there is a necessity of entering your personal information, as a result, when your Instagram account is hacked, they can have access to your personal and important information, and they can abuse them in order to achieve their desired results, so you have to pay more attention to your account security and don't neglect it because not paying attention to this part can cause heavy costs for you due to the fact that hackers will use your information in various ways which can be so dangerous for you.