That’s not it, the source-code grants you access to get URLs for profile photos of other accounts who interacted with that post. This can be done by inspecting the source code of the web page using an element inspection tool where you head over to the “Img” tab to spot the URL for any Instagram page that you’ve clicked on (doesn’t matter if it’s a 24 hour story or an upload feed image). The hack works well on Instagram stories too where the user only needs to analyze the images and videos being loaded on the page after which they have to pull out the source URL. SEE ALSO: How To Spot Fake Instagram FollowersĪs reported by BuzzFeed News, all it needs is a simple hack involving basic understanding of HTML and a browser to exploit this security flaw on Instagram.
Your private Instagram account isn’t exactly all that private and can be easily accessed, downloaded, and shared publicly by your friends/followers.
