Instagram Hacked? – Good Luck Getting Your Account Back

Bad customer support can be infuriating.  And, with Instagram, there really appears to be no customer service at all–at least from human beings.  Just bots that answer your message.  Here’s the ridiculous saga of how my Instagram account got hacked and I received no reasonable support at all from Instagram. Russian Hackers Like many people, my Instagram account is the documentation of my life.  While I use Facebook to post ordinary, every day things, Instagram is reserved only for my best photography and the most important events of my life.  It’s my digital scrapbook of my life.  I thought I would have it for the rest of my life. So, imagine my frustration, when on the evening of August 3, 2018, I noticed that I couldn’t log in to my account as normal.  My immediate reaction was that I made some kind of mistake when I had recently linked my Facebook account to my Instagram account.  Yeah, that must be the problem. As I was working on that, I...

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