Bug Hunter Found Ways to Hack Any Instagram Accounts

How to hack an Instagram account?

The answer to this question is difficult to find, but a bug bounty hunter just did it without too many difficulties.

Belgian bug bounty hunter Arne Swinnen discovered two vulnerabilities in image-sharing social network Instagram that allowed him to brute-force Instagram account passwords and take over user accounts with minimal efforts.

Both

This 10-year-old Boy becomes the youngest Bug Bounty Hacker

"Talent has no Age Limit"

That’s what I said for a 10-year-old Finnish boy on our official Facebook page while sharing his recent achievement with our readers i.e. Winning $10,000 bug bounty from Instagram.

Last Tuesday when we at The Hacker News first acknowledged this talented boy and the flaw he discovered in image-sharing social network Instagram, I did not have an idea that the Facebook

Instagram Adds Two-Step Verification to Prevent Account from being Hacked

Hijacking an online account is not a complicated procedure, not at least in 2016.



Today, Instagram confirmed that the company is in the process to roll out two-factor authentication for its 400 Million users.



It is impossible to make your online accounts hack-proof, but you can make them less vulnerable.



Then what you can do to protect yourselves from hackers?