ISLAMABAD – After a recent wave of phishing attacks on social medianetworks, Facebook has introduced a tool to prevent a data breach onInstagram. The feature will help users to check if the email was sent byInstagram or it is a hacker’s scam.
With this new feature, Instagram is trying to defeat the new strategy ofHackers in which they use the company’s name to make it look legitimate. Itbecame very easy to make people fool with the use of the logo of thecompany. Phishing emails seek you to click on a link and then they stealyour personal information.
Now if you receive an email from Instagram and you are not sure if it isreal or not, you can just check it by going into your account settings, andvisiting the ‘Emails from Instagram’ tab to get a list of all the officialemail sent to you by Instagram correspondence.
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On the release of this new feature, Instagram said, *“Bad actors aregetting better at imitating emails from Instagram, and it is becomingincreasingly difficult for people to distinguish between a genuine emailand a fake one.”* It added*, “We discourage people from clicking a link inan email that claims to be from Instagram if they can’t confirm we sent it.If someone accidentally clicks a suspicious link, they can request tosecure their account here link“*
