There is an app that’s available for Android and iOS called InstaAgent which connects to Instagram and promises to track the people that have visited a user’s Instagram account. Instead, what it appears to do is harvest usernames and passwords and sends that info to a remote server. The app has been removed from both the Apple App Store and Google Play, but because this app has already done its damage, you’ll need to change your Instagram password ASAP to protect yourself. This likely affected a whole lot of people because it is was the number one free app in both the United Kingdom and Canada with thousands of downloads from Apple’s App Store alone.
What’s really scary is the fact that an app like this made it onto Apple’s App Store. Clearly Apple needs to look at how apps get approved as this is not the first time that this has happened. But it is the worst so far.
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If You Downloaded ‘InstaAgent’, Change Your Instagram Password NOW
There is an app that’s available for Android and iOS called InstaAgent which connects to Instagram and promises to track the people that have visited a user’s Instagram account. Instead, what it appears to do is harvest usernames and passwords and sends that info to a remote server. The app has been removed from both the Apple App Store and Google Play, but because this app has already done its damage, you’ll need to change your Instagram password ASAP to protect yourself. This likely affected a whole lot of people because it is was the number one free app in both the United Kingdom and Canada with thousands of downloads from Apple’s App Store alone.
What’s really scary is the fact that an app like this made it onto Apple’s App Store. Clearly Apple needs to look at how apps get approved as this is not the first time that this has happened. But it is the worst so far.
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This entry was posted on November 11, 2015 at 12:50 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.