Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Caution: This app collects your Instagram secret data

The popular app Insta Agent secretly collects usernames and passwords of the users. A Europe programmer has the secret data theft uncovered, then Apple has removed the program quickly from the App Store. The damage is currently but hard to overlook.

Who uses the popular profile analysis tool Insta Agent, the program should delete as soon as possible. A Europe programmer with the Twitter names David LR has found that the app passwords and usernames of Instagram accounts of the participant sends unencrypted to an unknown seller. Per Twitter message of the IT expert has drawn attention to the vulnerability. Apple has subsequently reacted immediately and removed the thieving program from the App Store. Even Google has quickly taken action and cleared the Android version from Google Play.

"Insta Agent": Popular Instagram Addon
The tool, which allows you to identify, for example, the visitors to his Instagram profile, was a download-leader in various countries, including about Canada and Britain. Exact figures are not known, but reliable estimates of more than 500,000 downloaded apps from. This means: It is quite possible that now 500,000 Instagram accounts are no longer safe. Therefore, for those who have used the program times, should definitely and immediately change the password of his Instagram access.

According to David LR Insta Agent was alone created to collect user data. That it came to the profile analysis, was only pushed. In his research in the program code, the skilled person has to quickly discover that not only the sensitive user data is sent to an ominous Server. Occasionally, these data were also apparently used without permission to publish images on Instagram accounts.

Still there are other apps for analyzing Instagram accounts that hang on the success of the photo network. Whether there is also about data espionage, is unclear. Instagram does not recommend the use of such programs. How could but the spy app come through the testing process at Apple, is unclear. To prevent such cases, Apple new software checks normally put through its paces. In September it was revealed that contaminated Software had arrived in the App Store. Apple had cleared out all 250 affected apps.
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