{"id":13745,"date":"2026-01-12T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/instagram-says-theres-been-no-breach-despite-password-reset-requests\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:02:48","slug":"instagram-says-theres-been-no-breach-despite-password-reset-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/instagram-says-theres-been-no-breach-despite-password-reset-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram says there\u2019s been \u2018no breach\u2019 despite password reset requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That seemingly contradicts a Friday Bluesky post from antivirus software company Malwarebytes, which shared a screenshot of an email from Instagram informing users of a request to reset their password. The post claimed, &ldquo;Cybercriminals stole the sensitive information of 17.5 million Instagram accounts, including usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This data, Malwarebytes added, &ldquo;is available for sale on the dark web and can be abused by cybercriminals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Instagram subsequently posted (on X, rather than Instagram or Threads) that it had &ldquo;fixed an issue that let an external party request password reset emails for some people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company did not offer any details about the external party or the specific issue, but its post concluded, &ldquo;You can ignore those emails &mdash; sorry for any confusion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Instagram says there&rsquo;s been &lsquo;no breach&rsquo; despite password reset requests<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached. That seemingly contradicts a Friday Bluesky post from antivirus software company Malwarebytes, which shared a screenshot of an email from Instagram informing users of a request to reset their password. The post claimed, &ldquo;Cybercriminals stole the sensitive information of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/instagram-says-theres-been-no-breach-despite-password-reset-requests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Instagram says there\u2019s been \u2018no breach\u2019 despite password reset requests&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}