6 h. ago Meta explains why Instagram users received a deluge of password reset emails

Meta has moved to reassure users that there had been 'no breach' and that accounts 'remain secure' after it was reported Instagram accounts had been targeted.

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10 h. ago Millions of Instagram account details leaked as users encouraged to reset passwords

Instagram users have been warned not to click or respond

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11 h. ago Millions of Instagram account details leaked as users asked to reset passwords

Users have been warned not to click or respond

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12 h. ago Millions of Instagram account details leaked as users receive deluge of password resets

Around 17.5 million Instagram accounts were targeted in a data breach, with sensitive data released onto the dark web including names, email addresses, phone numbers and other details.

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14 h. ago Instagram password reset attacks — What you need to check right now

Instagram says it only sends emails with domains ending in @mail.instagram.com

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6 d. ago ‘World’s sexiest volleyball star’ Kayla Simmons puts on busty display as she wears bold outfit to see in 2026

KAYLA SIMMONS saw in the New Year with an incredibly busty display. The social media and volleyball sensation is a regular sharer of sultry snaps and videos on her Instagram and TikTok pages, which have a combined TWO MILLION followers. And the American nearly broke the internet with an IG photo dump of her New Year's Eve. On Saturday night, Simmons...

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7 d. ago Kylie Jenner cranks up the sex appeal as she drops even racier gold bikini snaps from her sizzling shoot

Kylie Jenner took to Instagram on Saturday to tantalize her 391 million followers with bikini-clad pictures.

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8 d. ago Queen’s Brian May admits health struggles leave him unable ‘enjoy anything’

Queen legend Sir Brian May shared a candid New Year message with his 3.6 million Instagram followers, emphasising that good health is essential to enjoying life after enduring a stroke in 2024 and heart attack in 2020

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1 week ago '7 things I wish I knew before going vegan as Veganuary starts'

A food blogger named Sadia Badiei, who has more than one million followers on Instagram, has shared a range of tips and advice for people who are considering going vegan

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2 w. ago Brits want social media ban for kids despite 'punishment' fear

Earlier this month the country blocked millions of young people accessing the platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit and Twitch

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2 w. ago Divine messengers: Italian nuns’ social media posts go viral

Revelation of Instagram spurs retired Catholic devotees in Abruzzo to gain millions of views with upbeat videosFor years, the mostly closed-off lives of the nuns living in a retirement home in Raiano, a mountain village in Italy’s Abruzzo region, followed much the same daily rhythm.They woke early, prayed, went to the chapel, had lunch, and perhaps whiled away the afternoon reading. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account In the early 17th century, the Peruvian city of Potosí billed itself as the “treasure of the world” and “envy of kings”. Sprouting at the foot of the Cerro Rico, South America’s most populous settlement produced 60% of the world’s silver, which not only enabled Spain to wage its wars and service its debts, but also accelerated the economic development of India and China. The city’s wealthy elites could enjoy crystal from Venice and diamonds from Ceylon while one in four of its mostly indigenous miners perished. Cerro Rico became known as “the mountain that eats men”.The story of Potosí, in what is now southern Bolivia, contains the core elements of Sven Beckert’s mammoth history of capitalism: extravagant wealth, immense suffering, complex international networks, a world transformed. The Eurocentric version of capitalism’s history holds that it grew out of democrac...

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