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A comment on Ask HN: My Instagram account stolen – any ideas how?.

Re:Ask HN: My Instagram account stolen – any ideas how? by MattBearman on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:48AM (#12651250)
Considering the desirability of a two letter account name, it seems likely this was a social engineering attack on Instagram support staff. Sadly, humans are often the weakest link.

Hope you manage to get your account back with all the photos intact.

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Re:Ask HN: My Instagram account stolen – any ideas how? by jmdocherty on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:51AM (#12651256)
Yeah, I hope it was social engineering (seems a better option than hacking Lastpass :-) ) but not sure how they could have done it given the information that was on the account/unique to the account. Will be interesting to see if Instagram return the account to me.
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