My InstaGram accounts have been repeatedly hacked by Russians!

[bif]

Has this been happening to anyone else?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. What do you mean by hacked?

[bif]

2. I get a warning from IG

That an attempt has been made to log in by someone in Russia. They require me to change my password. It's a real pain because I can't always submit the new password. It's happened to two of my accounts.

[Bobstandard]

4. Make sure you log in to IG..

Make sure you log in to IG directly, not using a link in an email or text. A classic phishing ruse is to send a message and link that then pretends to be IG or whatever, then harvests your login credentials. I’m not sauce about this but a direct message in IG could be used for the same purpose. So to be safe, log out, then log in again.

[cilla4progress]

3. I got a phone call from an overseas

number during the night...

[dutch777]

5. Russians may be looking for multiple points of network access to plant malware or overload the

systems. I would think since their fingerprints have been found for years in critical infrastructure systems like power and water supply systems they would go there first, but they may be probing broad spectrum to assess vulnerabilities. Only good news is if they can turn our lights out, we can probably do the same to them. As aged as our infrastructure and power grid is, theirs is even worse with less resilience and redundancy.