{"id":143869,"date":"2025-10-25T02:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143869\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:11:29","slug":"ask-adrian-i-cant-get-back-into-my-hacked-instagram-account-and-they-are-posting-money-making-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/143869\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Adrian: I can\u2019t get back into my hacked Instagram account \u2013 and they are posting money-making scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Our technology editor answers your trickiest tech questions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Instagram hacker was able to change a user's email, phone number and password\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dc7c0bc3-715a-47a2-bdf1-b94261349888.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">An Instagram hacker was able to change a user&#8217;s email, phone number and password<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Would you have any insight into how I can regain access to my Instagram account? I was hacked last week. They managed to change my email, phone number and password associated with the account, which I can\u2019t believe can be all done without it raising any Meta alarm bells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our technology editor answers your trickiest tech questions An Instagram hacker was able to change a user&#8217;s email,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[15807,79,18,19,876,17,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-143869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-instagram","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115432383081695376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}