{"id":123872,"date":"2021-06-16T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/facebook-awards-30000-bounty-for-exploit-exposing-private-instagram-content"},"modified":"2021-06-16T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T16:22:40","slug":"facebook-awards-30000-bounty-for-exploit-exposing-private-instagram-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/facebook-awards-30000-bounty-for-exploit-exposing-private-instagram-content","title":{"rendered":"Facebook awards $30,000 bounty for exploit exposing private Instagram content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-awards-30000-bounty-for-exploit-exposing-private-instagram-content.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/fartademayur.medium.com\/this-is-how-i-was-able-to-see-private-archived-posts-stories-of-users-on-instagram-without-de70ca39165c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Medium blog post<\/a> penned by bug bounty hunter Mayur Fartade on Tuesday, a set of vulnerable endpoints in the Instagram app could have allowed attackers to view private media on the platform without following a target account.<\/p>\n<p>This included private and archived posts, stories, and reels.<\/p>\n<p>If an attacker obtains a target user\u2019s Media ID, via brute-force or through other means, they could then send a POST request to Instagram\u2019s GraphQL endpoint, which exposed display URLs and image URLs, alongside records including like and save counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Medium blog post penned by bug bounty hunter Mayur Fartade on Tuesday, a set of vulnerable endpoints in the Instagram app could have allowed attackers to view private media on the platform without following a target account. This included private and archived posts, stories, and reels. If an attacker obtains a target [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}