Instagram was started in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and
Mike Kreiger. Facebook bought Instagram in the year 2012 for $1 Billion. Later
that Instagram introduced many features to enhance the user experience. Whenever
someone deletes their photos, videos, chats, they are deleted for the user but
stays in the Instagram server for about 90 days as a safety precaution. Also, story archives are present in their servers as long as possible unless we delete
them.
According to a report by Tech Crunch, Instagram
regularly conducts bug bounty programs to find bugs in their application and
many bugs have been found in the past as well which is normal. Earlier in 2019,
Instagram conducted a bug bounty program through which a security researcher
Soughat Pokharel found a bug that reportedly states that photos, videos, chats,
stories that were deleted by himself a year ago is still present in Instagram’s
server.
Soughat Pokharel came to know about this when he
downloaded his data of Instagram from “Instagram’s data download tool” and came
to know that the private messages that
were deleted by him a year ago and are still staying in their servers. He reported
this to Instagram and Instagram rewarded him by giving $6000.
There was no sign of data threat or data transfers in
their servers as many companies do so. Instagram fixed the bug as soon as they
came to know about the issue. Users across the globe need not worry about data privacy.
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