{"id":984754,"date":"2026-01-12T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984754"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:02:16","slug":"did-you-receive-a-mail-to-reset-instagram-password-is-it-a-data-breach-is-it-a-2022-claim-going-viral-meta-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/did-you-receive-a-mail-to-reset-instagram-password-is-it-a-data-breach-is-it-a-2022-claim-going-viral-meta-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you receive a mail to reset Instagram password? Is it a data breach? Is it a 2022 claim going viral? Meta responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several Instagram users last week reported receiving unexpected password reset request emails, it has now been reported that a massive data breach may be behind it.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening (IST), cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes reported a massive data theft from the Meta-owned social media platform, claiming that the sensitive information of a whopping 17.5 million Instagram users had been compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several Instagram users last week reported receiving unexpected password reset request emails, it has now been reported that a massive data breach may be behind it. On Saturday evening (IST), cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes reported a massive data theft from the Meta-owned social media platform, claiming that the sensitive information of a whopping 17.5 million Instagram users had been compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}