If your account was nearly hacked, Instagram will help you secure it

Instagram puts several tools in our hands in case we aren’t even able to change the account name. Now it will help you secure it if it has been hacked.

This new tool guides the user through a series of questions and actions to put the lock your account and thus be able to recover it if at any time you feel that it has been hacked.

Verify your account and secure it

he can review recent activity in the account, check the profile information and update it in case we eventually lost access to our account.

And although we nowhere see the recommendation to use the 2-step authenticationSince the publication made on the blog, the social network comments that its use is essential to lock our account.

Indeed, he took the opportunity to announce that in a few weeks he will authorize the use of the WhatsApp

An integration quite similar to that existing in Facebook Messenger where the SMS to verify the user’s identity.

Instagram will never send you a private message

In the same post, the social network warned that it had seen a exponential increase in the number of cases phishing which tries to steal personal information as well as the password of many users.

In fact, he warns that we will never receive a private message from Instagram itself, and that this message will come from someone who is misusing it.

Any communication made by the social network will always be done from the tab “tab.Instagram emails“which can be found in the app settings.

An Instagram that continues to keep the batteries safe, as it has been updated with a data backup mode when we are away from home or can use pronouns in our account.