Michael Bublé’s Instagram suffers cock-up

Michael Bublé's Instagram suffers cock-up

Quality* British tabloid The Sun reports:

Michael Bublé’s Instagram account uploaded a snap of someone’s balls in a series of bizzare posts.

Despite fans alerting the star to the alleged hack, the photographs remained live for half an hour.

One showed a woman performing a sex act on a man, with the caption: “Thank you Michael, very cool” and a link to a video.

Another showed an orangutan on a bike chasing after a little girl. The monkey’s face was covered with a human cut-out.

* Not really.

Apparently everything was mopped up within half an hour of some of the Canadian crooner’s 2.1 million followers spotting the decidedly non-middle-of-the-road content.

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Quite what’s happened here isn’t clear, and I have no interest in thinking more about Michael Bublé at the best of times. However, possibilities include that the singer’s management team suffered a phishing attack, or were using a poorly-chosen or reused password.

In August 2018, after a spate of high profile hacks of accounts, Instagram strengthened its account security by allowing users to enable third-party 2FA apps.

But I imagine a lot of accounts still don’t have the feature… umm… turned on.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, or drop him an email.

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