The Facebook-owned photo-sharing application Instagram has reportedly fallen victim to an attack, which appears to have originated in Russia, according to news from The Sun. Both Mashable and Reddit have reported a surge in the use of the word "hack" in tweets related to Instagram accounts. Additionally, Google Trends shows that a significant jump in searches for "Instagram hacked" occurred 7-11 August.
A tweet storm continues to thrash on Twitter, resulting in a social media meltdown that's revealing widespread user frustrations over the lack of response from Instagram.
One user tweeted, “your help center is so unhelpful. How an i supposed to gain access to my hacked account if all you want to do is send an email asking me to reset my password and that email has been changed to theirs???”
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