How to protect your Instagram account from hackers?

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How to Protect your Instagram Account?

Today's a really interesting article because we're going to be going over the top ways to protect your Instagram account, but not only that I'm gonna give you the definition and explanation of why so many Instagram accounts are getting hacked into.

First, we will get into the mind of these Instagram hackers and go over the methods that they actually use.

So once we understand that then we will be able to better protect our accounts.

How these hackers are hacking your Instagram accounts? alright so there's a lot of articles out there on Google of how to protect your Instagram account but not many of them go into how hackers actually get into your Instagram account so the best get into these people's minds and protect our account.

How do Instagram accounts get hacked?

Let's go over some of the most popular ways people hacked Instagram accounts now the first one is phishing

Phishing

So what phishing essentially is trying to bait somebody into giving you up to their password now you may be thinking I'm never gonna give up my Instagram password so this doesn't affect you.

It's a lot trickier than it seems so phishing could be sending somebody a link to their Instagram DMS being something like;

Hey! Are you looking for Instagram verification? I can get you in verified on Instagram for like $10 and you're thinking wow that's cool and then next thing you know you're giving up your password it can also be sites like;

Hey! I'm gonna grow your Instagram account and next thing you know you're giving up your password and then they're stealing it so phishing is the most popular way to hack into someone's Instagram account. Now the next thing is called a brute-force attack.

Brute-force Attack

Now, what is a brute-force attack? It is a program that which does is it guesses your password.

Understand it this way; so somewhere out there, there's a computer program where software that you can probably buy or download in the deep dark web and what it will do is.

They will take a large list of like a million combinations of different Instagram passwords and essentially guess your password seven times switch at IP guess it seven times again switch an IP and then keep guessing guessing guessing guessing guessing until eventually your password is guessed and your account is hacked.

Now the next way that people hack into Instagram accounts is just by guessing now you wouldn't believe it but trust me as something that grows the most multiple Instagram accounts for many people.

Straight Password

People use really bad Instagram passwords I'm talking about passwords like welcome, iloveu, superman, name, and password straight terrible names for Instagram passwords so here's what I want you guys to do comment below what you think is the most commonly used Instagram password.

Fake Information

The last thing that people use to hack in Instagram accounts is leaked their information so for example;

if you are a fashion company called "Fashion Street Clothing". I don't know  but somebody will do is they'll make another Instagram account called the same name Fashion Street Clothing and then send an email to Instagram or Facebook support saying that these people stole your username and they'll fake documentation saying that hey look I have a Shopify store named Fashion Street Clothing hey look you know I have a picture of you know documentation stuff like that and they'll fake the information so this is a really tricky route.

So now that we understand all of these ways that people use to break into your account

How to Protect your Instagram Account  in two step verification?

Let's talk about how you can start to protect your accounts so none of these things happen to you because Instagram is the most important social platform of 2019 going on this platform is gonna help you grow your business.

Two-Factor Authentication

So let's go over how to protect your account alright so the first way to protect your Instagram account is by putting on two factors so what this does is every time you log into your Instagram or somebody new logs into your Instagram account it's gonna ask for a secondary password this really important not a lot of people do it even though everybody knows about it so all you have to do go to your

Instagram account > go to settings > on the right side click that open and then go to privacy and security >  go all the way down and then "enable two-factor authentication"

Two-factor authentication  is the best  practice to secure your Instagram account from hackers, ok

Strong Password

The next thing  you can do to protect your Instagram account is just choosing a solid password with special characters now I know it's really hard to consistently log in with all these special characters and these unique names but as you see a brute-force attack you can easily break into any Instagram account that is a simple password so that's like things like your name.

so, for example, Rahul 1 2 3 easily guessable your last name 1 2 3 your address these are all things that brute force attacks easily break into so make sure you're choosing special characters because you believe it or not there are people that specialize in just breaking in and guessing your password incredibly easily.

Facebook  Support

Now the last thing is the one that most people don't know about making sure that your account is connected to Facebook.

So right now if your Instagram account gets stolen there's nothing that you can do about it besides contact Facebook so what you'll do is then contact Facebook and then let them know that your account was stolen and the only way they can prove that is that if your Instagram account is connected to your Facebook page.

Now just make sure that your account is connected to Facebook because that's the only way to get your account back in the event that it is stolen or checked.

So that's it for today's blog just a really quick article on the mindset of scammers and how people break into Instagram accounts and how you can protect it.

Conclusion

Finally, you know the answer, How to Protect your Instagram Account? So if you have an Instagram account that's like four letters or five letters you may be getting your account for - all the time or you may not be getting your account you know suspiciously hacked into or any suspicious activity but it's always best to keep your account safe.

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