Instagram security vulnerability

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Possible Instagram security vulnerability reportedly revealed; update: Instagram says bug fixed, no private data made public

Security researcher Sebastián Guerrero has posted some details on an apparent security vulnerability within Instagram. Guerrero claims to have discovered a method for forcing any Instagram user to follow another account. That would mean that private Instagram accounts would be accessible to a malicious user, to say nothing of forcing non-private users into following other accounts they may not want to.

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The nice folks at ESET wrote.

Are you one of the 50 million users of Instagram, the photo-sharing service bought by Facebook in April for $1 billion? If so you need to look out for an Instagram update to fix a vulnerability that has just been published by Spanish security researcher Sebastián Guerrero. This vulnerability, which Guerrero has dubbed the "Friendship Vulnerability," allows people you don't know to add themselves as a friend to your Instagram account, with privileges that include viewing photos you thought were Private.

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Hmmm, im not a user but interesting all the same,thanks

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You're welcome.