Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
by thamer on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:26PM
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I would hope that Instagram has some counter-measures to prevent brute-forcing, at least restricting the number of failed login attempts.
It might be instead that your friends re-used a password that was leaked/stolen from somewhere else; anyone with a non-trivial number of online accounts using the same email will be listed in multiple leaks on aggregators like https://haveibeenpwned.com/.
It might be instead that your friends re-used a password that was leaked/stolen from somewhere else; anyone with a non-trivial number of online accounts using the same email will be listed in multiple leaks on aggregators like https://haveibeenpwned.com/.