Instagram password reset crisis linked to 17.5M data breach. Personal data sold on dark web. Change your password now and enable 2FA.

In the latest cybersecurity scare, a file with nearly 10 billion passwords has been posted to a hacking site. Researchers at Cybernews said they discovered the file, posted on July 4, with 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords. Cybernews experts said ...

An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems. Every year, the company releases its password table, which displays the time needed to hack a password using the best consumer-accessible ...

I deleted X and Instagram ’ Amid the claims, several Instagram users took to social media to share their experiences. One person wrote on X, "I’ve been getting meta emails about changing my password the last like 2 weeks.