Instagram Hacked

Wellyd

I think I’m genuinely going to cry. I woke up to emails from Instagram this morning saying my phone number had been removed and my email address have been removed from my account. What can I do? The emails sent look very suspicious

dudara

The email could be fake. The first thing to do is to check if you can still access your Instagram account. Log into Instagram, perhaps post something, see what happens

EDIt : Don’t click on any link in that email yet (should have said this first time)

salmocab

That revert this change line looks very suspicious to me.

Mars Bar

"Hacker Way"

Definitely fake!

dudara

Mars Bar wrote: »

"Hacker Way"

Definitely fake!

That’s actually the real address for Facebook & Instagram. Genuinely

Wellyd

Thankfully they allowed me back in! I had to send an email of a photo of myself holding a piece of paper with a unique code and my name and username written on it. My app still won’t let me log in but I can still use the website! I have to say they were very good about replying. I’ve added two step verification to my account which I would advise everyone to do!

Wheety

Change your email password too as a precaution.

EdgeCase

Never, ever, ever follow a link in an email like that.

Go to Instagram.com directly by typing it into your browser manually and log in the way.

There's a serious possiblity that the email was a phishing scam.