Is Instagram down? Some users have reported that the service appears to be experiencing technical difficulties, in particular login issues.
We contacted Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to inquire about the apparent outage. In response, a company spokesman told us, “We are aware that some people have trouble accessing Instagram. We are working to get things back to normal as soon as possible and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
We found several tweets on Twitter confirming that Instagram has been dropped by at least a few users (at the time of writing this article), some of whom mentioned login errors. These errors probably appeared to be related to a partial service outage, not hacking or suspensions:
@instagram Something went wrong with my insta account despite having two-factor authentication. I also changed my password, I can’t sign in yet
– Neha Kalia (al kalia_neha1) May 26, 2022
Is Instagram down? Can’t log in ????
– Yannick (POKALSIEGER 2021) (@ yannigo_v3) May 26, 2022
Instagram is down, I guess I’m going to build a house with my bare hands, nothing too crazy
– Ben Wegmann (@benwegmann) May 26, 2022
The Down Detector website, which tracks when various services experience disruptions, also showed a large number of users reporting login errors and that Instagram was at least partially down.
A Twitter search on Instagram, sorted by the latest tweets, showed that scammers are taking advantage of the disruption.
We strongly recommend that you avoid such users. Also, never give your password or text verification code to anyone who says they can fix your login issues on any social networking platform.
Readers should be wary of any users who advise contacting a specific account that is supposed to help correct login errors. It seems like this is just a way to compromise an account.
WARNING: Twitter scammers are taking advantage of the current Instagram outage by telling people to contact specific users who are supposed to help fix their sign-in issues. Never give your password or any 6-digit text verification code to these users. https://t.co/1g2lmM8QNU
– Jordan Liles (@jordanliles) May 26, 2022
This story will be updated if we receive more details.