Instagram will finally launch two-factor authentication on your accounts – 01net.com

Cécile
Bolesse

Reporter

There are only a few days, Instagram announced the arrival of a multi-function account management. In this mid-February 2016, the photo sharing app begins to deploy two-factor authentication to help secure the accounts of its 400 million users.

The information is not yet official, but a user, Wolf Millionaire, saw this new version of the app. In this window, Instagram application to enter a code sent by SMS to any connection from a new device. We must therefore link their account with a phone number. But it seems that the function is not yet fully stabilized since then the user could not log in to their account for over an hour.

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This is long awaited by users of the service. Some, like the American singer Taylor Swift, have indeed faced with their account hacks to flood the followers of questionable business proposals or photo flight.

Two-factor authentication is already setting number of services, although it is often optional. Twitter, Google, Facebook (owner Instagram), LinkedIn or Amazon have already deployed all

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Wolf Millionaire

Cécile Bolesse

Journalist

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