I’ve long stopped being shocked and surprised whenever Meta is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Having said that, the latest Instagram data leak of early January 2026 – exposing the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Olivia Brown, a threat analyst at Socket Security, has ...

Discovering that your Instagram account has been hacked is never going to be fun. But the good news is that it's usually fairly straightforward to get access back — and to keep yourself a bit safer in ...

(RTTNews) - Instagram (META) has insisted its systems were not breached after large numbers of users received unexpected emails asking them to reset their passwords. The company said it had fixed an ...

Last Friday, a report from Malwarebytes claimed that data from nearly 17.5 million Instagram accounts is being sold on the dark web. The report cited multiple user reports claiming suspicious password ...