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Instagram removes hundreds of accounts tied to username hacking
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February 05, 2021 20:53 IST
Facebook, which said it was working with law enforcement, said many people involved in this practice were minors. It said it had sent cease and desist letters to about a dozen people behind the hacking and selling of about 400 accounts
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An administrator of the OGUsers site did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They have previously said the site bans trading accounts acquired through hacking.
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Facebook, which said it was working with law enforcement, said many people involved in this practice were minors. It said it had sent cease and desist letters to about a dozen people behind the hacking and selling of about 400 accounts
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(Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Thursday took down hundreds of Instagram accounts that were hacked and sold for their high-value usernames, including the accounts of people behind this activity.
FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of the Instagram logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
A Facebook spokeswoman said the people engaged in this rule-breaking practice were well-known figures in a community known as the OGUsers, who trade desirable usernames for popular websites from Twitter Inc to Netflix for money and clout.
The usernames, which can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, are often short words prized for their scarcity, like @food or letters like @B. Social media companies including Facebook-owned Instagram have rules against the sale of accounts.