How To Hack Instagram Account in 2024 — ExploitByte

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10 min readMay 15, 2020

Hack Instagram” is one of the most searched and hot topics around the Internet, like Gmail hacker. We have prepared a detailed list of how hackers can hack someone’s Instagram account easily in just a few minutes and how can we prevent the same. — How to Hack Instagram Account in 2024

If you want to know how hackers can hack someone’s IG account, please go ahead and read the techniques listed below. The most successful method among all of these techniques is phishing. Phishing enables someone with no or little technical knowledge to hack account’s password easily in just a few minutes.

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1. Social Engineering

This is the most common technique for hacking Instagram accounts. In fact, this method shouldn’t come under Hacking, since much knowledge is not required for this method. I am listing this method under hacking to ensure the list of most common techniques used for IG account hacking in their respective order. Social engineering is basically a process of gathering information about someone, whose account you need to hack. The information may be his/her date of birth, mobile number, boyfriend/girlfriend’s mobile number, nickname, mother’s name, native place etc.

How Social Engineering work? Security Question

Many websites have a common password reset option called Security Question. Most common security questions are :

What is your nickname?

Who is your first-grade teacher?

What is your native place?

or

Any custom questions defined by the user.

Obtaining such information from the respective people may let us hack into their account. So, if anyone comes to know the answer to it, they will be able to hack your account using forgot password option.

Most common passwords

  • Mobile Number
  • Nickname/Name and Birthdate Combination
  • Bike Number
  • Old Mobile Number
  • Per Name
  • Boy Friend’s Mobile Number / Girl Friend Mobile Number — Most Of The Lovers
  • Boy Friend’s Name / Girl Friend Name
  • Closest Person

Now, be honest and comment here if you are one of the people who have any one of the common passwords mentioned above. Please don’t forget to change your password before making a comment.

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How can you protect yourself from Social Engineering?

Security Question

Don’t have a weak or familiar security question/answer. Therefore, it should be known only to you. You can set your security question here. Fortunately, Instagram has a lockout period of 24 hours before giving access to the one who successfully answered the security question, meaning that the hacker cannot enter into your account until 24 hours. So you can prevent the hacking attempt by logging in to your account in the 24 hours lockout period.

Additionally, IG provides an option called “Login Alerts” under Instagram Security Settings. You should add your mobile or email there to get notified whenever your account is logged in to a new or unknown device.

Most Common and Weak Passwords

It is very simple. Change your password now if you have any one of the weak passwords stated above.

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2. Software Method

Considering the fact that the previously mentioned method is extremely unsafe and unreliable, I highly recommend you use a source that is completely reliable. After all, when performing an action hacking someone’s Instagram account, you need all the trust and discretion possible. Which is why I recommend you use a spy app to hack into someone’s Instagram account without them knowing. Spy apps, especially the good ones, have a lot of intrinsic trust built in because they have a loyal user base, they come with a lot of reviews, and also have a traceable social footprint, so you know they’re trustworthy. It is in their own best interest to protect your privacy.

My personal recommendation would be to hack Instagram account using the mSpy software. mSpy is a highly reliable software, which has become the undisputed champion in the spy app market. This is because it comes with great reviews, reliable technical support available 24/7, and it also has some really advanced features at a very reasonable price.

How to hack into someone’s Facebook account using mSpy:

  1. Check to see whether your phone and the target phone are compatible with the app.
  2. Choose which price package you’d like best, and then make the purchase.
  3. After the payment has been processed, you’ll receive a confirmation mail with your login details and a link to your control panel.
  4. In the control panel, you’ll find a detailed guide on how to install mSpy on your target phone.
  5. Get some time alone with the target phone, and then install the application using the method described in the guide.
  6. Access your own control panel, and hack away!

If you have any other questions about mSpy or how it works you can refer to the FAQ page. If you still don’t find your answers, you can scroll down to the Q&A section in this article, or leave a question for us in the comments section.

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3. Phishing

Phishing is the most common technique used for hacking IG passwords. It is very easy for someone who is having little technical knowledge to get a phishing page done. That is why phishing is so popular. Many people have become a victim of Phishing page due to its trustworthy layout and appearance.

How does phishing work?

In simple words, phishing is a process of creating a duplicate copy of the reputed website’s page with the intention of stealing user’s password, or other sensitive information like credit card details. In our topic, it means creating a page which perfectly looks like IG login page but in a different URL like Instgram.com, or Instagarm.com, or any URL that pretends to be legit. When a user lands on such a page, he/she may think that is the real Instagram login page, asking him/her to provide his/her username and password. So, the people who do not find phishing page suspicious are going to enter their username & password. The password information will be sent to the hacker who created the phishing page. At the same time, the victim gets redirected to original IG page.

Example: AJ is a Hacker. He creates an IG login page with some scripts that enable him to get the username and password information. AJ puts this fake login page in https://www. Instagarm.com/make-money-online-tricks. Shroud is a friend of AJ. AJ sends a message to Shroud, “Hey Shroud, I have found a free trick to make money online, you should definitely take a look at https://www. Instagarm.com/make-money-online-tricks-free”. Shroud navigates to the link and see a IG login page. As usual, Shroud enters his username and password on it.

The username and password of Shroud is sent to AJ and Shroud is redirected to a money making tips page https://www. Instagarm.com/make-money-online-tricks-tips-free.html. That’s all; Shroud’s Instagram account is hacked.

Please note that phishing is done by a third person through emails; that is how it happens most of the time. So always beware of phishing emails, else you may lose your Instagram account, or credit card details, or any other sensitive data. Learn more about phishing.

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How can you protect yourself against online IG phishing?

Hackers can reach you in many ways; email, personal messages, IG messages, website ads etc. Clicking any links from these messages will lead you to a IG login page. Whenever you find an IG login page, you should note only one thing which is URL. Because nobody can spoof/use Instagram URL except when there are some XSS zero-day vulnerabilities, but that’s very rare.

  1. What is the URL you see in browser address bar?
  2. Is that really https://www.Instagram.com/zeroday (Trailing slash is very important since it is the only separator in Google chrome to distinguish domain and subdomain. Check out the below examples to know the difference)?
  3. Is there a green color secure symbol (HTTPS) provided in the address bar?

Bearing these questions in mind should prevent you from the hacking of online phishing pages. Also, see the below examples of phishing pages.

Most of the people won’t suspect this page (snapshot given above) since there is an https prefix with a green color secure icon and also there is no mistake in www. Instagram.com. But, this is a phishing page. How? Note the URL correctly. It is https://www. Instagram.com. cixx6.com. So, www. Instagram.com is a sub-domain of cixx6.com. Google Chrome does not differentiate the sub-domain and domain, unlike Firefox does.

One can obtain SSL Certificates (HTTPS) from many online vendors. A few vendors give SSL Certificate for Free for 1 year. It is not a big deal for a novice to create a perfect phishing page like the one given above. So, beware of it.

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4. Key Logger

A keylogger is a software tool used to record keystrokes on a computer or mobile device. This, in turn, records everything you type using your keyboard and store it for use. Generally, keyloggers are installed as application software in operating systems to track keystrokes, but there are hardware keyloggers as well.

Hardware keyloggers also are known as physical keyloggers attached to a computer in a USB port records everything before it sends the keyboard data to the computer. There are various mobile keyloggers, that perform the same action on various operating systems.

How Key Logging works?

All keyloggers run in the background (except trial versions) and won’t be viewable to users until you know the keylogger password and shortcut used to view it. It will record all the keys pressed and give you a detailed report of when and what keys are used for what application — Simply, a clean report to identify passwords.

Anyone who is reading the keylogger logs is able to see the Instagram password or any passwords and sensitive information typed, like credit cards, bank username, password etc. Whenever you log in to a public computer, there are chances to lose your Instagram password to someone else.

Hardware keyloggers are identifiable in case of your personal computer but are hard in case of public computers.

In another scenario, your friend/colleague/neighbor could ask you to log in using their computer as a help. If their intention is to get your password, then you are most likely to lose your Instagram account to the hacker.

Nowadays, many people are using mobile keyloggers. It enables to track the keypad of mobile. So, any sensitive information typed on the mobile keypad is vulnerable to hacking.

How can you protect yourself from Key Logging?

You need not be afraid of keyloggers when you use your personal computer since you are the only one who is going to access it. But, whenever you use any public computer or your friend’s computer, you should not trust it.

I always suggest my friends use On-Screen Keyboard whenever they are in need to type a password. Also, please make sure that nobody is checking your screen when you type your password because your screen would expose what you had typed. In windows, there is an inbuilt tool called On-Screen Keyboard that helps us to select keys using the mouse.

You can open OSK by using the Run dialog box. Winkey + R to open Run dialog box, type OSK and then press Enter. Nowadays, many banking portals provide a screen keyboard in the browser itself. So, please make use of it whenever you are surfing on public computers. On-Screen Keyboard helps even when hardware keyloggers are installed.

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5. Plain Password Grabing

This is another common method used to steal Instagram user’s passwords. Most people are unaware of this method, but traditional hackers use this method to hack user accounts.

How does Plain Password Grabbing works?

In this method, the Instagram hacker targets a particularly low-quality website, where the victim is a member and hacks their database to get the stored plain username & password of victim.

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How could the hacker/attacker get access to Instagram? Many of us use the same password for IG and also for some poor xyz.com. So, it is easy for a hacker to get your password through the low-quality poorxyz.com.

In another scenario, the hacker/attacker creates a website with the intention of getting victim’s password, so when the victim registers his/her account using email and creates a password, those details will get stored in the database of the hacker/attacker. Thus hacker gets access to victim’s account.

Common people, who use same email and password for these kinds of low-quality websites, may end up losing their Instagram account.

How can you protect yourself from Plain Password Grabbing?

You should never trust the third party low-quality websites. Even passwords of popular websites, like LinkedIn, are insecure and vulnerable to hacking. So, never and ever trust the third party low-quality websites.

Most of the website developers are storing plain passwords in their database without even thinking about encryption or security. This makes hackers’ job easy since the password is in plain text format.

Best way to prevent this method is to have a unique password at least for websites that you really trust. Don’t use your IG password for any other website/portal, so your password will be safe.

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Originally published at https://exploitbyte.com on May 15, 2020.

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