If you are one of many, many For those who received a password reset email from Instagram in the past, the company says it has fixed the issue. What was the matter? Unclear. We contacted Meta for clarification and have not yet received a response. All we know is that an “external party” triggered the emails, and Instagram says you can safely ignore them.
The company posted on Twitter that the issue has been fixed and also claimed that there was no breach in its systems. This appears to contradict reports from Malwarebytes, which said that information from 17.5 million Instagram accounts, including usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, was available on the dark web.
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