The App Store is a middling well - fence garden , which think it ’s liberal news when someone manages to pull off a heist . But that ’s what InstaAgent , a third - party app that would let you see who was reckon your Instagram visibility while skim off your password , seems to have done .
As noted by developerDavid L - Ron Twitter , the app seems to have been sending usernames and watchword in cleartext to an unnamed waiter , rather than using Instagram ’s API to lumber in . The app was then mail junk e-mail and third - party range to users ’ feeds — and who recognize what else was being done with the login information .
What ’s remarkable is InstaAgent ’s popularity : it ’s the number one app in its category in the UK and Canada , and also decent popular in the US and Europe , with hundreds of thousands of downloads . It seems to have been pulled from the App Store now , but if you downloaded it , you ’d be well advised to go change your parole on Instagram ( and anything else you used the same credentials for ) right the hell now .
[ MacRumors ]
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