Due to a bug in the Instagram API, hackers were able to steal phone numbers and email addresses attached to certain accounts, many of which belong to celebrities. While the glitch has been fixed, hackers have made a searchable database that allows anyone to buy an account’s information for $10 in bitcoin.



“Instagram clearly hasn’t yet understood the full impact of this bug,” one of the people behind the site, dubbed ‘Doxagram,’ told The Daily Beast. The person provided a list of 1,000 alleged Instagram accounts. Each entry also included either an email address, a phone number, or both. To verify the authenticity of the sample, The Daily Beast tried to create new accounts on Instagram with a random selection of email addresses from the list. In every case, the email address was already linked to an Instagram account.

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