This happened to my friend's wife a few years ago - an Instagram employee hijacked her username: https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54666

This happened to my friend's wife a few years ago - an Instagram employee hijacked her username: https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c546662abc0 https://medium.com/@behoff/they-say-nothing-will-change-5c54... After being picked up by some of the bigger tech sites, they returned the username to her.