Users spend many hours throughout the day and night on Instagram , and many people make all their purchases from the pages on this social network, in addition, users do a lot of other things which are related to their business through Instagram, and if their Instagram is hacked by hackers, they may lose all their source of income or important personal information, as you know, hackers are very interested in doing things that are forbidden to them, and they do their best to find ways to achieve all the unattainable.Most social networks, as well as large sites, reward people who can find and report security holes in their system, as well as bugs, and Instagram did the same for someone who was able to spot vulnerabilities, he was awarded a $30,000 prize for finding the social network security hole and giving it to its owners, other people have made efforts to find security holes on Instagram as well, which we are going to discuss in more detail below.

What is Instagram?

Instagram , is a social networking service for sharing photos and videos of users, which was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, it is an American social network owned by Facebook, in this social network, you can use hashtag, location, accounts, tops section and filters to find photos, videos, and various pages in order to reach your destination, Instagram Explorer is a place where you can see the posts that other users have been interested in, and if those posts seems interesting to you, you can share them with your friends with just one click, Instagram also adds to its capabilities in each update, and ultimately, makes it impossible for users of this social network to spend a day without spending time on it.

Instagram award to those who find and report the security holes of this network:

As we mentioned before, Instagram asks all users to notify them if they find a security hole and receive a lot of money as a gift from them, which has caused all people, including, Hackers try their best to find them, another person who have tried in this field in order to solve this issue and find the security holes of this network, was an Indian security researcher named Laxman Muthiyah, he looked into cases where people had forgotten their passwords and took a closer look at whether he could find a security hole in this field or not, in fact, when different people forget their password, they can request a new one, which will be sent to their email or phone number, and by entering the verification code that acts as a password, they can log in to their Instagram account. 

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