Facebook Inc Has Finally Decided To Upgrade The Security of Instagram

Instagram is a Facebook's photo and video sharing app which has now become more secure

In today’s world it’s not hard to take out any person’s personal information – as all the information is usually available on the all the social media networks. These social media applications have become more vulnerable with time; making it easier for hackers to invade user’s privacy. The largest social media network Facebook Inc. has taken a stand and bold move against this problem and is aiming at making its platform more secure for its customers where they can easily and without any stress socialize and connect with their friends.

In order to combat major hackers on the internet, the photo sharing platform Instagram now has included two factor authentications to its video sharing platform, as reported by TechCrunch. Instagram was acquired by the social media website back in 2012 – ever since the acquisition was made by Facebook, the photo sharing application has only grown and prospered. According to a report by the website, the video sharing platform has cross the mark of 400 million users officially.

Furthermore, a number of people are attracted towards the platform now including high profile celebrities, artists and brand – because of this reason even the hackers are encouraged to hack in to their profiles. An advanced level of security was one of the major requirements of the photo sharing app since a while now; however it has finally decided to provide that level of security to its users.

According to the latest advancement made by the social media company, from now on the customers will be asked to verify their profiles through their phone numbers; they will be required to type in their cellphone number, on which they will receive an authentication code. Once the user types their username and password, they will be required to mention the verification code as well hence making it difficult for the hackers to login into user’s accounts. From now onwards, hacking user’s accounts would not be as easy as it used to be which they used to do by either guessing or phishing a customer’s account.

The tool of two factor authentications is now being used by a number of applications especially the parent company of Instagram; it has been using this security advancement since 2011. Additionally, Facebook and Instagram are not the only applications and websites that use the security tool; Gmail also offers the same service. The social media network has been highly criticized because of the low level security provided by Instagram as it was exposed to hackers.

According to a spokesperson of the social media site, this service will be made available to all the customers soon enough – at this point in time, it is not widely available to all the users of the photo sharing application. Some of the high profile celebrities have been a victim of such cases, including Kris Jenner as well as Taylor Swift. Furthermore, there is another offer that is being provided by the video sharing app, according to which a user can be easily able to switch between to accounts instead of logging in and out to switch between accounts.