Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak

Published on January 11, 2026

Instagram says it fixed a bug that allowed threat actors to mass-request password reset emails, amid claims that data from more than 17 million Instagram accounts was scraped and leaked online. [...]

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