Personal Data Leak Monitor

Instagram data breach

6.22M accounts from Instagram (instagram.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included display names, geographic locations and phone numbers.

Breach date
January 7, 2026
Accounts
6,215,150
Added to the database
January 11, 2026

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What leaked

Display namesEmail addressesGeographic locationsPhone numbersUsernames

What to do now

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About this breach

In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, account IDs, and in some cases, geolocation data. Of these records, 6.2M included an associated email address, and some also contained a phone number. The scraped data appears to be unrelated to password reset requests initiated on the platform, despite coinciding in timeframe. There is no evidence that passwords or other sensitive data were compromised.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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