No matter how careful we are, sometimes somehow we just manage to let our guard down and accidentally allow some insidious ‘element’ take control of our online asset.
Instagram, being a very ‘visual’ online media, is a heaven for hackers and you should always keep a leading antivirus software installed on your computer because if you don’t keep your vigilance, you will surely be vulnerable to their attack.
But it’s all too late, you had found out that your Instagram got hacked! Now what can you do to get your account back!?
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How to get your Instagram account back when you got hacked
- 1If you can still login to your account, login right now and immediately change your password AND your email address.
And while at this, you might as well change your email password at the same time, just in case the hacker got hold of your email too.
Edit 18/03/2017
Sadly, Instagram doesn’t provide us with anything to report our account is hacked, anymore!
It’s basically the classic them of from bad to worst, for us users. And I’m really not surprised that is coming from Instagram
The only thing Instagram advise you to do is what they say on the following Help Page.
To me the advises Instagram gives in there doesn’t really have much.
The only way out is to try to get them to let you relogin again.
Failing all of these, I’m afraid to say that you’ve lost your account and unfortunately you just have to forget about it and start with a new one.
This time, please please take good care to secure it. Register with a proper and accessible email account, and don’t give away your account details to any third-party websites/apps.
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- 2If you are not able to login to your account at all, then you can try to report it to Instagram and start the process to recover your account. You should answer the Q&A, write as much information as possible and submit the form.
Good Luck!
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Help! My #Instagram got hacked! – Read here on how to get your account back http://t.co/crSIq4BfOS http://t.co/VkqNKj4PNJ
I was hack I want it back
Please do the steps describe in the article.
My account was hacked and it says disabled due to violating terms. When I follow the prompts to recover it asks where I’m writing this do I hVe state issued id of sorts my full name and IG name and then asks me to upload my ID but when I try to upload it doesn’t respond. I can click the upload button 1000 times with nothing. Any ideas to why I mean I’m being held up by them at this loint.
hey chris, thanks for the post, but how long does it take to get the account back since you start the process??
Sorry, I have no idea about how long it will take. In fact, if you don’t mind please let me know when you’ve heard anything from them. I will put it on the article as an example case, it would be very useful for all of us. Thanks.
I need help logging onto my Instagram, I no longer have my password and I’ve forgotten that and my question.
Did you try ‘forgot password’ link?
iam so sad i cant open my account i’m waiting from yesturday nothing happened 🙁
Did you go through the steps described in that Instagram Help Page?
hey hii, when i tried to login it says “my account is disable due to violenting terms”
i have report for that and have sent jpeg before 3 days
when will help come? will they help or no?
We don’t when the case is going to be dealt with, but usually they will do it. Just be patience and keep trying.
HeY I guess my account is hacked coz I can’t login anymore I tried a lot they asked me for a picture with a code return on a paper still I haven’t received any reply
Just wait, that’s all you can do.
They won’t do shit for you though. This happened to me earlier this year and they just said there wasn’t anything they could do and sorry about it. Instagram has the worst customer support you will ever find and that is why hacks go on daily throughout their system.
Forget about worst, it’s actually almost non-existent, I really despise them. Sorry about your account.
My Instagram account was stolen due to me having an easy password. When I notified Instagram and sent my original photos showing the account was mine, they asked me what my password was. When I told them, all attempts by them to assist stopped.
Have you tried this official form: https://help.instagram.com/contact/364531043625021
How many days take Instagram to recover our accounts?
From i send documents to check our ownership business?
Honestly with Instagram you wouldn’t know. It could take weeks before an account get reinstated. Let me know how it goes, I’m curious as well.
Help! My instagran cannot post any photos, after uploading the photos has gone straight away
Can you still Like or Comment?
Yes my account are still able to like or give any comment,
Is Intagram giving you any message? Normally when you are blocked there will be some message come up from Instagram to tell you what happened and what you need to do.
Have you ever heard about oath attack? Oath attack enables hacker to access private photo, they are able to delete photo and post new photo. I guess my instagram has been attacked by them
Sorry, I’m now confused. You said you can still login to your account. If you were hacked, I would assume that you wouldn’t be able to login at at all. If you are still able to login to our account, then I suggest you change your email and password immediately.
Please help me recover my account, thank you
My instagram got hacked a few days ago but I was able to recover it thru instagram’s help. But the old posts/photos I had were gone. It’s so frustrating. I can’t recover my hacked instagram’s photos, can I? Pls say I still can..
If the photos had been deleted you won’t be able to get them back. But you should still have the original in your camera roll.
How long did it take for them to get it back?
From 4 hours up to 4 weeks.
instagram has the worst support centre.the process of retreiving that hacked account is redundant.with no progress at all.esentially,they never help..its been two weks..av snt almost 10 jpeg verifications…no reply comes…
Yes I know. So you’ve sent all those verifications (what are they asking?), and you haven’t got any replied at all?
Help my Instagram been hacked! What should I do ?
Read this article.
hi my instagram acount hacked changerd emil
can i return my acount with my old photos?
There is a link on my blog post for an Instagram page where you can report about this. Do this and hopefully you can get your account back. As for your photos, you should have the original in your mobile phone.
Hi what do i do if they say that there is not much proof that its my instagram account because i use it as an fashion blog and not my private account?
You should ask them, what more proof they need that you can provide them?
If my Facebook was accidentally linked up to another acount by mistake can they still recover my acount I even ulinked it the fucked up part was I just hit 33k
I don’t know to be honest. You just have to go through the motion. Report it, and see what they say. I assume that they will ask you all sort of questions to determine your claim.
I know im scared im never going see my account again
They couldnt do nothing about my sitchuwation instagram is stupid an a compeite waist of time
https://goo.gl/photos/bn56mGUfJUBABTv67 I was hacked at 33.6k
Be persistent. Mine was hacked into yesterday and they recovered it today for me. You should go onto the Instagram help form and write down all the details you can about the situation. But I sent about 5 of those forms! And relentlessly reported the images the posted and the account from my work account and asked my friends to do the same. I’m not sure if that helped but I got everything back.
Congratulations! Yes persistence often pays off, especially with Instagram.
Is it common that instagram asks for your picture in order to work on the issue or is it same hacker’s attempt to get your photo?
Yes it’s common.
Hello. What normaly happens after the form. I have lost a 100 k account due to hackers.
Hopefully Instagram will contact you directly.
my account autoblock new followers after I accepted requests which I didn’t block them all. and I couldn’t follow some of my friends. my photos keep deleted by itself after reaching 70+ posts. Help me
Did you use some third party software? That sounds like the work of bots.
I’m so sad they deleted all my pics from over the years and just uploaded 3 pics of sexy ladies they didn’t link to anything so not sure why they bothered, however I’d love to get my content back how do I do it?
You can’t get your content back if they deleted them. Sorry. But you should have all of them on your Camera Roll (if you use iOS). You just need to upload them again, unfortunately.
@treprivite_ on Instagram hacked my account at 1015 followers help me get it back please
Instagram hacked your account? Are you sure?
My accounts mail is not meine. My mail adress is “[email protected]” but my accounts (Bilgiconr) mail adress is different.
My account was stolen. What are we doing ?
So your password has been changed?
Yes but support team answered to me. At the moment, ı login the account but there isn t verification code.
Tbh this didn’t help. They don’t do anything about your account being hacked.
Did you peruse the form to report it?
My Instagram got hacked. I have followed the procedure explained above but no use. I got hacked at 6. 6k followers. What should I do.
Unfortunately you just have to wait for them to come back to you. Sorry about that.
In the meantime, it would be prudent to change your email password.
brother please you seem a good guy please help me i can’t login insta says ” to secure your bla bla bla ” i tried “forgot my password” and he gave me the password of the other account !!!! but i still can login to my email but not the insta and i contact with insta team and they replay and asked for a pic of me with a paper with a code i gave them what they ask for and still no reply
That’s basically as much as you can do. Now you just have to wait for them to come back to you. Be patient.
they diiiid the turn it back and verify it…! i love your lucky face man <3 thank you
I’m glad!
Someone stole my password and blocked me how do I get my password back and he changed the number and email and Facebook
You have to file your issue to Instagram using the form that I linked from this post. It’s the only way you can get your account back.
My account isn’t hacked but I forgot my password and my email is made up and I didn’t link to Facebook is there any way I can get back in
Try to use the form I linked in this post: http://moblivious.com/instagram/avoid-getting-banned-or-blocked-by-instagram/
I got hacked my account 5 days ago, the hacker ask me for 18k usd =( my account was with 688,000 followers. Because I told him I wont pay because I don`t have the money he was like OK no problem so he deleted all my pics where I was in after few hrs, he just left pictures of my trips.. after all he posted his own photos then I start loosing followers and in all does 4 last days I lost around 46k. Good for him but bad for me.
2 days later he delete his photos and someone else start adding other type of photos but now from a woman. She was looking so happy on her selfies. Now the account have 604K and they delete 220 photos and all my videos with all my views and comments.
I contacted her and she told me that she bought my account on a site for 14K usd .. http://WWW.FAMESWAP.COM She told me am sorry I never though that was hacked from someone else… But what she was doing there .. Right? after that she show me the payment by direct message and I almost die when I sow all was true and I sow the date of the payment (yesterday)
So I toll her I already report my account to Instagram and she just answer me like… (I figure out) that`s it. Then she block me.
But she delete her pics … now I still in 604K and now she add on the profile -ACCOUNT FOR SALE-
This is the worst feeling in my life. I can`t even think about something else, even sleep.
I reported My account to Instagram but since now I don`t hear back from them. They told me to send a code and a photo of me…. Since then I been waiting awake.
I hope I can get back my account,, if Instagram send my account back is possible to get the pictures and videos back?? I think am asking to much but they should do that. How a big company don`t have all save it. Am more scare to open a new account spend my life there and same hacker can do the same to my account. They should have an option like get back my account how it was last month or the last 45 days or something like that.
Someone was lucky to get the account back?? How long takes to answer Instagram back when they asked for send a pic with a code??
Even to my enemy I will do that to him, is the worst feeling ever.
My mom she told me don´t cry everything it`s gonna be good, shes so nice that she told me to get her Instagram account that she don’t use it anymore but she have 45 followers and all are my family. =(
Hi there,
I’m sorry that you have to go through this. As far as I know, Instagram should give you back your account soon after you send them those code in picture. So be patient.
As for your deleted picture and videos, there is no way to reinstate them, Instagram don’t save them (they need the space for other photos), once they are deleted they are gone.
But you should still have them somewhere in your Photo Album, right?
Now, I don’t want to sound like insensitive person, but this experience should teach you something, about security. When you get your account back, immediately change the email to a new one, remember to lock down that email, use very strong password for both the email and Instagram.
Never ever click on any link in an email that is suspicious. Don’t go visit suspicious websites. Use iPhone for Instagram, if you can afford it.
Please let us know when you get your account back, we would be grateful.
Good luck!
Hi buddy.. I feel your pain as I am in the exactly the same situation.. I lost almost 200.000 followers.
Anyway after I send the code to instagram to prove I am the owner they gave me my profile back after 3 days but it was 0 followers/following and 0 images. However after 2 days the hacker came online with my original profile with all the following/followers and all the images.. I was like wtf? he private message me and asked for money then I refuse to pay and he deleted everything and now he is trying to sell the profile.. I am gutted…
I feel my friend. I have one question though, so Instagram gave your account back you said, which account was this? Because you said that the hacker had your original profile. So the one Instagram gave back to you was NOT the original?
Some one still my account
Report it to Instagram using the form I put in this article.
i need help. i forgot the pasword of instagram and my email i want my acount back or to block it , please help mee
You need to get access to your email, otherwise there is nothing you can do.
I logged in to my account and it said the password has been changed try logging in again
If you don’t remember that you haven’t changed your password, then there is a high possibility that your account has been hacked. Use the form I linked in the article to report it to Instagram.
Can you help me? When I try to log in on instagram, it says that this e-mail is not registred.. and my password is incorrect. what can I do? My profile is hacked?
It looks like it. Use the form I linked in the article to report it to Instagram.
When thet sent me – Include the above code hand-written on a clean sheet of paper, followed by your full name and username , it means that I need to write code, my full name and username too? Or just that code?
Can you help me ?My account is deactivated that I pretending to be someone else, i have returned my account, can they report me again and my account to closed again?
My instagram account
Mas…
IG saya sempat dicoba hack orang lain. Ketika proses reset password melalui email saya. Saya tidak sengaja klik weblink untuk unlink email saya ke Instagram saya. Sehingga saya tidak bisa proses reset sama sekali. Bagaimana ya mas? Masih bisa di re-link an gak ya?
Coba di laporkan pake form yang tautannya ada di post ini bro.
this morning i wanted to check my account and when i did, immediantely, it said ‘ youve been logged out of the account. the user may have changed the password’ but i didnt change it. help please and my second question is, i did the form but what will instagram use to reply to me?
1. Your account seems to be hacked. Try to change your password. Now.
2. Instagram will reply to your email with which you registered your account.
Hi, I recently reset my phone, after that I tried to login instagram but to blank email was sent to me from insta to confirm security code, it is the 4th time that I am reporting, I have my user name an pass, after I login to my account the message ask me for 6 digit security code that have been send to my email, but someone changed my email in my account, so I cant access to code and login, please help me, this account is for presenting my cactus to my customers. But this problem …
Please inform me, I tried alot to have these followers.
But insta didn’t do any thing after one week.
Who changed your email? If you didn’t change it then your account might’ve got hacked. Please report it to Instagram using the form I linked in this post.
I didn’t change that, and I had reported this to insta a week ago, but not thing happen…
How would they inform me, and how long does it takes to reply…
Rick just answered it. When Instagram gets around to deal with your issue, they usually will email you. How long? Who knows (seriously, it’s that bad). So just be patient. In the meantime, don’t forget to change your email password too. And try to remember the photo you’ve posted the first time.
Hi, still no reply after 3 time report, one of my friends had report it for me to, but not thing happens…
Very bad recovery system…
As I have said many times here, you have to be patient with Instagram. Someone just reported to me that he had to wait for 3 weeks until his issue was resolved.
I had someone guess my instagram password and change email too. They then deleted all my photos and followers. Instagram took weeks to finally ask me to prove it was my account, asking for me to upload the first photo I ever published. Luckily I remembered what it was and sent the photo to them. Weeks went by again and then I finally received the ability to change the password. Good luck as there is no standard procedure it appears. If instgram thinks your password was too easy to hack, I believe they put your case to the back of the queue.
And my email set as my [email protected]******.com
..???!!!!
If it helps…
me too did you manage to fix it !
How to report to Instagram? I can’t do it?
Did you try the link I included in this post?
Daughter’s Instagram acct is suddenly inaccessible. Password reset shows email w/ reset link was sent to (her_username)@e******.com. I see others have this issue as well, both in this forum and in another. Waiting for I-gram to get back to me…but very strange. What is @e******.com?
…just to be clear, that does not resemble the email address she used to sign up.
Looks like it’s been hacked. Please use the form I linked on this post and wait for Instagram to take care of the issue.
Hi, I have your problem and reported this for sevral times and not thing happens yet…
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i want my acckunt back ?
What happened? Have you reported it to Instagram?
actually i forgot my email id and password on instagram could u help me but i have an account on fb and gmail and both informations match from my instagram account pllz get my back instagram account
my account name is deepak.hans25