At the end of last week, Dutch police arrested two suspects on allegations of hacking multiple Instagram accounts and then using them to request illegal payments for advertising services.
The two suspects, yet unnamed, are of 18 and 19, from Alblasserdam and Boskoop, two neighboring cities near Rotterdam and the Hague.
The two teenagers are accused of sending spear-phishing emails to their victims, imitating authentic Instagram notifications, asking users to log into their accounts.
Teenagers hacked hundreds of accounts
Using this simple technique, the teenagers recorded the passwords of hundreds of Instagram accounts. Police say that the teenagers specifically targeted owners of Instagram accounts that had thousands of followers. For the full article click here
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