Instagram is alerting high-profile users that someone could have accessed their phone number and email address through a bug in its software. In an email sent to verified users on Wednesday, Instagram said that no account passwords were accessed, and the bug has been fixed. "We recently discovered that one or more individuals obtained unlawful access to a number of high-profile Instagram users' contact information -- specifically email address and phone number— by exploiting a bug in an Instagram API," an Instagram spokesperson said in a statement to CNN Tech. Earlier this week, entertainer Selena Gomez's Instagram account got hacked. Use hard to guess passwords, unique passwords on every account, two-factor authentication, and password managers to help keep track of your logins.

Source: CNN August 30, 2017 22:18 UTC