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Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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post #139

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Users here will believe any conspiracy theory so that's not really a high bar. I'm serious. There was that massive 2000 comment thread the other month about some big company doing something evil and then it turned out they didn't do it. Everyone who was right and informed in the original thread was greyed out by users here.

Maybe that’s because 90% of the time it turns out the company did do it? I’d be interested in knowing what thread that was though.

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Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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I suppose he has read and agreed to Terms of Service when he signed up, which gives the company ability to do anything with their account. Facebook is not in the wrong here against this guy, just some employee did not follow the Facebook's internal rules.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

#153

This happened a while back to Brian Hoff’s wife, he was able to eventually get it back: https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54...

Oh, man. I was skeptical about OP's Facebook employee hack thing at first, but then I read this medium write up. Not good.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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post #132

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So are you asking for screenshots from my email of the thread where everyone came together to agree on the terms and execution of the conspiracy, or? Also, sarcasm isn’t an emotion. I’m English, so perhaps consider that my culture of challenging someone is different from yours before projecting whatever big bad horrible emotional troll hurt your feelings once. Facebook is literally more employees than even populate t…

In your estimation, what percentage of Facebook employees know about such extremely well known schemes?

I think this thread firmly establishes the range of such a proportion, but we’ll need the n of ‘mrits social network to arrive at a number. It’s somewhere between “they know a few people” and “their entire waking life is surrounded by Facebook employees” (poor soul) which also bounds our calculations.

This is openly discussed with bemusement on my non-Instagram team is what I can say.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

#155
post #7

There'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... )

Well the difference between "hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you" and this is this is now past tense. So it would be a case of you getting banned on Xbox and someone going "Yea that was my dad".

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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It's part of ToS you can lose your account at any time for any reason. And it's their first rule.

And yet, that rule is stupid. But your logic instagram could just give @kyliejenner to some random person, and you think she would have no recourse? You think it would be acceptable for someone at instagram to do Kylie Jenner a personal favor and give her `@kylie`, and the person who currently has it should have no recourse? Kylie is just an example person with a larger following; I'm not implying that this happened,…

> And yet, that rule is stupid.

Doesn't matter. They can still do it to anyone anyway.

> But your logic instagram could just give @kyliejenner to some random person, and you think she would have no recourse?

Well yes. They (Facebook) own the platform, it's a privately owned company and they can do whatever they like either via the ToS or in general. You don't own your account handle. They reserve the right to terminate your account or disable the handle at any time.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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post #91
post #77

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There is some evidence of some kind of takeover though. Searching for site: http://instagram.com/danny in google, the first result is the following: Danny (@danny) • Instagram photos and videos www.instagram.com › danny 8690 Followers, 134 Following, 100 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Danny (@danny) This is still in Google's cache. The current instagram profile is very different.

That’s...not evidence of a facebook employee being implicated. It’s actually not even evidence that the account even swapped hands!

> That’s...not evidence of a facebook employee being implicated.

The account messaged and said a facebook employee was involved. It isn't proof, it isn't strong evidence, but it is evidence and an implication that a facebook employee was involved.

> It’s actually not even evidence that the account even swapped hands!

Similarly the change in account usage pattern isn't proof but it is evidence.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

#158
Something similar happened to me too - an automated squatter took control of my account when I changed email addresses, started posting TOS violating images and got banned. There’s zero support unless you ask someone to abuse their access to help.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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post #7

There'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... )

You can 2FA on twitter with the Authenticator app. There is no indication that OP was using SMS 2FA, and you would suspect that they would have mentioned that their phone stopped working if in fact they were sim swapped. I agree there is no proof it was an inside job but it seems plausible.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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post #86

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Which I'd assume will be filled with alt-right and similar content (banned from other platforms usually for good reason), anime avatars and a liberal dose of poor taste (and potentially illegal in certain jurisdictions) content such as "lolicon". None of this is something most people want to be anywhere near. While mainstream social media has many flaws, at least I am grateful for the fact that it bans, discourages o…

Ask for censorship and you will reap the controlled and powerless society that you have sowed.

So that's a yes, then?
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