Corrupt Instagram Employee Steals My Friends Instagram

Hi,

Posting this in case anyone can help my friend.

Today my friend woke up to no access to his Instagram account @hacker, turns out someone (likely a corrupt instagram employee) took over his account somehow, skipping 2 factor authentication and all security measures, after that he proceeded to change the email and login details leaving my friend logged out of his own account.

He has owned the @hacker Instagram account for many many years, and it’s pretty sad someone would do this, knowing obviously the handle is important to my friend.

Once the person who stole the account had access, he proceeded to use some kind of service to swap the username onto another account, probably because they suspected my friend would be able to get it back.

Person who stole the account: https://www.instagram.com/hacker

My friend (victim of attack): https://www.instagram.com/hacker.bye.habibi

If anyone knows someone at IG who can look into fraud cases or who can help him with this please reach out to me in DMs or I can give you my friends contact.

Unlisted because of shouting in the title. Please edit your title and remove caps.

Done!

Damn, I’m sorry to hear that they stole your friends account. But tbh, it doesn’t necessarily have to be someone at Instagram who took the account, it could just be someone who is good at what they do. You’ll be surprised at what stuff people can achieve on Instagram, that they’re technically aren’t supposed to… I mean just look at the services sold here. If people can unban accounts, swap usernames, bypass 2fa, verify accounts, and all types of other stuff that are only supposed to be done by support… then you can’t put it past a regular person to have taken the name from him neither.