Instagram’s “17 Million User Data Leak” Was Just Scraped Records from 2022

Hackread investigated reports that 17.5 million Instagram accounts were recently breached and found the data is a republished scrape from 2022 (previously leaked in 2023), not a fresh breach; Instagram denied a system breach but confirmed an issue that let an external party trigger password reset emails, and the article warns that the recycled data still poses phishing and smishing risks to affected users.