These companies care lot to scale their stack. But nobody gives shit to scale support and handling these kind of issues.
Someone has stolen my Instagram account
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#32Is this hearsay or is there proof? Aside from @danny saying it was from an fb employee, there’s nothing else to indicate it was, and I wouldn’t trust the word of a hacker/recipient of a hacked account.
Even if the fb employee bit is untrue (I'm also skeptical), it indicates that someone can take over your account like this with no recourse.
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#33There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
It's believable though. The culture around "OG" accounts really is that weird.
It's easy enough for a Facebook policy team to confirm this one way or the other by looking at the logs. If this gets enough visibility I assume that will happen.
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#34There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
If that was the case why would FB be marking the issue as resolved?
Because there's no proof of any malicious activity. It could very well be that the guy Tweeting is trying to take over the account.
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#35This is a very common thing. In fact influencers and FB employees publicly and loudly talk about this method and no one stops them. "Hey I'm visiting fb headquarters anyone want a new @ or a checkmark?" Why do random fb employees even have this capability?
Didn't a similar thing happen with a famous Soccer player?
Yes. Instagram’s explanation was they thought the account was an impersonator of Andrés Iniesta and disabled it/gave it away.
Usually if Instagram wants your account they add underscores to the original handle like they did with @sussexroyal.
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#36The arbitrariness with which these companies rule over our digital lives infuriates me more from month to month. We do our best to fight dictators in the physical world but somehow accept them in the digital realm.
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Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account
#37There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
If that was the case why would FB be marking the issue as resolved?
I don't know, but it sounds like the issue was resolved (correctly or incorrectly) the first time, so the user started filing a ton of issues, which were automatically marked as duplicate. Now he's spamming the white hat security form (https://twitter.com/dannyjhall/status/1310231761444581385), which is not likely to get him a response.
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#38This is why you want Mastodon :)
Does Mastodon have an Instagram-esque mode now?
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#39This is a very common thing. In fact influencers and FB employees publicly and loudly talk about this method and no one stops them. "Hey I'm visiting fb headquarters anyone want a new @ or a checkmark?" Why do random fb employees even have this capability?
Just because some vacuous air bag says it, doesn't make it true.
Instagram is basically the school playground, but sadly unlike in real life, people can make a career from being "playground" popular.
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