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Meaning they hacked Instagram? I think you are mislead by the "private contact number" phrase.

• detaro 7y ago
  The article has theories regarding that too.
  • 781 7y ago
    The article uses the word "scraped" multiple times. The word "hacked" is not used at all. FB also talks about scraping: > “Scraping data of any kind is prohibited on Instagram,” said a spokesperson.
    • detaro 7y ago
      > The scraping effort comes two years after Instagram admitted a security bug in its developer API allowed hackers to obtain the email addresses and phone numbers of six million Instagram accounts. The hackers later sold the data for bitcoin. Obtaining data through a security bug is very much different from scraping it from public sources, and not really something you can blame on the people the data is about, as your initial comment did. So lets wait and see if the question where the data comes from gets answered clearly before blaming people for being stupid.