Comment on "Hacked" Instagram
otter@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Are the messages in her outbox? What some scammers do is they make a new account with the same name and profile picture, to then send messages that look like they’re from a friend.
I remember reading about an Facebook phishing thing going around, but that involved getting the password and then spamming out messages. She could try and remember if she got any weird links that she logged in with. Sometimes the scammer sends the harmful link to the followers, so the handbag site might be the problem link
Quicky@lemmy.world 5 months ago
None of the messages that were sent to people have appeared in the chat history for that person. Except there are two new chats in her messages to people that she doesn’t know, containing only the rogue message.
Interestingly, her entire chat history with me has been wiped.
Gacrux@lemm.ee 5 months ago
google “session stealer”. your partner probably clicked on the malicious link and provided hackers full access to the account. not sure if signing out of all devices helps, but do it anyway.