Instagram users’ account information in danger, password leaked

Social Captain, a service that increases users’ followers on the social media platform Instagram, has leaked the usernames and passwords of thousands of users to hackers. If you have also taken the advice of Social Captain to increase the followers of your account, then be careful because it is possible that now you too can become a victim of hackers.

TechCrunch’s one Report It has been told that Social Captain has Instagram The account password was stored in insecure plaintext. A loophole in the website allows anyone to access the profile of any Social Captain user without log-in details.

“A security researcher alerted TechCrunch that a flaw in Social Captain’s website has exposed a spreadsheet of accounts of approximately 10,000 users to hackers. Of these, 70 accounts belong to premium users of the social media booting platform. On this, Social Captain has said that the company has fixed this flaw.

Instagram has said that Social Captain has broken the company’s terms of service by improperly storing users’ log-in information. Apart from this, Instagram has also said that the company is investigating it and appropriate action will be taken on it.

Earlier in May 2019, Instagram itself was involved in a database leak case. In May 2019, the personal data of crores of celebrities and bloggers was made open in the form of a big database. This database included personal data of 4 crore 90 lakh known persons.