{"id":227015,"date":"2017-08-31T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T06:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=227015"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T06:23:35","slug":"instagram-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/227015-instagram-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram is alerting high-profile users that it has suffered a security breach, and the personal information of certain users has been accessed.<\/p>\n<p>The company said a bug in its software allowed hackers to access contact details &#8211; phone numbers and email addresses &#8211; of verified, high-profile users.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram said no passwords were exposed, and that it \u201cfixed the bug swiftly and are running a thorough investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recently discovered that one or more individuals obtained unlawful access to a number of users&#8217; contact information by exploiting a bug in an Instagram API,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We encourage people to be vigilant about the security of their account and exercise caution if they encounter any suspicious activity, such as unrecognised incoming calls, texts, and emails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/208496-instagram-has-700-million-users.html\">Instagram has 700 million users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has suffered a security breach and the personal information of certain users has been accessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10424],"class_list":["post-227015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227065,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227015\/revisions\/227065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}