The social network Instagram launched its new quick security check function, with which it guides people whose accounts could be hacked and informs them of the necessary steps to secure them.

The rapid security check or Security Checkup has the main objective “to help people keep their Instagram accounts safe”, as the company indicated in a statement.

To help people whose accounts have been exposed, steps to secure them include checking their login activity, reviewing their profile information, confirming which accounts are sharing information, and updating their account information, contact for account recovery, as well as phone number or email.

However, the social network has reminded users that it has other security mechanisms, and recommended enabling two-step authentication through WhatsApp accounts or the phone number, as well as updating the phone number and email associated.

Instagram warned that it will never contact users by direct message, due to an increase in recent months in malicious accounts that send direct messages to people to provide them with confidential information, such as their username and password. The social network only contacts the user through the ‘Instagram emails’ tab.

K. Tovar

Source: dpa

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