On the internet, there are countless publications detailing how to hack an Instagram account. But do they all truly function? Do the automated hacking techniques that have been demonstrated online actually work? The truth is that many of them are full-on frauds, while others are only partially frauds. By partial scams, I mean that they offer on their websites paid versions of freely accessible hacking tools that may be found online. Well, today we'll demonstrate every free method of hacking your Instagram password and account.
1. Guess Instagram Password
This one should be obvious considering how frequently passwords are reused. Instagram and Facebook users share the same password. Even Gmail passwords can occasionally be the same. Yes, people reuse passwords because they are too lazy to keep track of numerous passwords, even though I am aware that is perhaps the worst thing someone can do. The most widely used passwords globally are "abc123," "iloveyou," "password," "qwerty123," etc. These kinds of passwords are relatively simple to decipher. Some people use their hometown as the Instagram password, while others use their mobile number.
- [name]007
- [name]123
- [mobile number] $$$
- Old mobile numbers or current mobile number
- Crush name or lovers name as insta password
2. Phishing for Instagram accounts
The most effective way for hackers to access Instagram accounts is probably phishing, despite being the oldest hacking technique. Recently, phishing allowed even many well-known celebrities to have their Instagram accounts compromised. The idea behind phishing is to create a phoney page and use social engineering to persuade the victim to log into Instagram using the malicious link. This rogue link will log the user's credentials in before rerouting them to the original website. The user's account has already been hacked by the time he gets into the official Instagram website. Many people do, which results in daily account compromises by hackers.
3. Hacking Instagram accounts via Facebook
Many people use the same passwords for both, or sometimes both the accounts are linked together.
"Instagram's sign in with Facebook feature" is an example where the attacker can compromise to gain access to the victim’s account.
Currently, I know about three automated phishing websites which can help you hack Instagram quickly without any hassle.
Step 1: Make an account on any of the following phishing websites. Use fake emails to make accounts
Step 2: Generate the fake phishing link. You can also make the fake Instagram hacking link with this site.
Step 3: Use social engineering and your creativity to trick the victims in using that link and entering the Instagram username and password.
4. Try older passwords of other accounts
People are very lazy to think of new passwords, and when it comes to making passwords, they use variations of the same password they regularly use. People keep reusing the same password on multiple sites. Especially on Gmail Facebook and Instagram. This makes it very easy to hack any of the popular websites because you now know any of the old passwords of the target. You can try variations of the same passwords. Or you can make a custom wordlist for hacking passwords by using tools like crunch.
5. Spy Apps
This is the best method for hacking Instagram. You can make a fake Instagram mod or use existing mod apks on the internet to inject a malicious virus in existing apks and trick the victim.
Spy apps are malicious android apps which trick the user in believing that it is a legitimate app and convincing him to give access to data and another person information. Android is most vulnerable to this type of attacks. IOS can also be hacked, but it requires apple id of the victim in many cases.
I have reviewed two spy tools so far.
Spynote my personal favorite and Hoverwatch the trial based/paid automated solution. Ahmyth is another tool similar to spynote, which is free and can hack Instagram password easily.
6. Keyloggers
Keyloggers are applications which record all the keystrokes of the victim which are being typed on the device. In android, it uses the overlay functionality originally meant for people with disabilities. It exploits that feature to record everything being typed by the victim. The username passwords otps etc. can be quickly recorded and thus the Instagram account password can be hacked and compromised.
Shadow- Kid's key logger
Shadow keylogger is an Android app available on Google Play Store, which is originally designed for the parents to keep watch on their children. Hackers can misuse this application to hack Instagram account username and passwords.
7. Google Smart lock
A new feature introduced by Google and Android as a method to save passwords on the phone and laptops quickly and more conveniently. What smart lock does is that it autosaves all the passwords used for apps and devices on Android or Chrome browser. What you can do to exploit this feature is you can make them sign in to their Instagram account by using your Android phone. Their credentials will be autosaved into your phone, and you can log in into their account directly.
This feature is significantly misused, especially on android and chrome.
8. Brute force Instagram
This is probably the most annoying and tedious method to hack Instagram. Hacking Instagram with Brute force is a task which requires a lot of patience and a good password list for hacking.
I have already written multiple ways of brute-forcing Instagram in a separate article you can read.
It is possible to hack Instagram with this method only if the target uses a weak password. Or if you already know what type of a password the victim uses.
9. Cookie stealing attack on Instagram
Cookie stealing or session hijacking is a method where you can access a victim’s Instagram account without knowing the username and password. But its much more difficult than hacking Facebook because who really uses Instagram on a pc. Everyone uses the app to access the Instagram account. I’ll have written an in-depth article on Facebook cookie stealing and hacking Facebook, and it’s a slightly technical method. Instagram will work the same way.
10. Mitm
If you can get on the same network as the target close, then you can trick them into connecting to a malicious Wi-Fi network. By doing this, you can steal their Instagram username and password via a Man in The Middle (MITM) attack.
Tools like the Wi-Fi Pineapple make creating a fake Wi-Fi network as easy as possible. When the target connects to your fake network, you can sniff the traffic or route them to the fake login page by using a phishing attack.
The diversity and creativity of MITM attacks are what makes it the most difficult to prevent.
11. Plain Password grabbing
This is another standard method hackers use to hack Instagram passwords and other credentials. Sometimes you do not even need to do this hack.
You can use an automated tool to check all the accounts liked with a particular email and try to hack those accounts instead.
How does Plain Password Grabbing work with Instagram?
In this hacking method, the hacker targets a weak low-quality website. This xyz.com website which the victim uses is insecure. The hacker can now hack their database to get the stored plain text username & password. Low security and low-quality websites and forums can be easily hacked.
Regular people, who use the same email address and password for low-quality websites, may end up losing their Instagram account.
12. Hack email
You can hack an Instagram account by compromising their email by a phishing attack or a spear-phishing attack. This is also an attack vector. By hacking their email, we can easily hack their Instagram account and reset and take over the account.
There are many ways to hack email accounts. I will be writing a separate article for that so stay tuned.
13. Hack the smartphones
You can hack their smartphone by using malware and trojan. You can use this phone to hack and extract the Instagram username and passwords.
Instead of directly targeting Instagram account of the victim, they attack their android or IOS device.
14. USB stealer
This method of hacking Instagram works only with people using the autosave password feature or use the browser for using Instagram.
USB stealer is an automated hacking USB drive which, when connected to any windows system, will automatically execute and copy all the passwords and usernames on the system. As you can see below in the image, the USB hacking script copied all the passwords from my windows 10 system.
I have written an article on how to make your own USB stealer. You can read it.
This is how you can hack Instagram with USB Stealers.
15. Shoulder surfing attack
This is the simple social engineering attack where the hackers see the user type in their password. You can also use a recording feature to record a video of the victim typing his or her Instagram username and password into a system or a device.
The hack is simple to do:
Just stand behind the target when he/she is typing the Instagram password and check out the different keys pressed by them. This can reveal the target’s password quite easily.
How to stay secure from Instagram hackers?
- Use a strong password.
- Change passwords regularly
- Use two-factor authentication
- Use separate passwords for financial accounts
- Only use the official app downloaded from play store
Commonly Asked Questions about Instagram hacking
Below are some of the questions may come into your mind while hacking Instagram accounts.
Q1. Are these hacking methods legal to use on anyone?
No, these methods are shown only for educational purposes do not try hacking Instagram accounts of people illegally. It is a crime
Q2. Are these methods undetectable?
No. There is no way to be 100% undetectable. You can only make it difficult to be traced by using proxy and zombie pcs. But If someone really wants to track you and they have alot of money and resources he will.
Q3. Can I hack Instagram Account Using a Mobile phone?
Yes, you can use your mobile phone to hack Instagram accounts by Termux or kali Nethunter. I will be showing the installation of Nethunter soon. So stay tuned.
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