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Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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Instagram told Motherboard it was disabling hundreds of high value accounts obtained and sold by OGUsers members. This includes accounts belonging to middlemen, who act as a third party between buyer and seller to ensure no one is scammed and take a cut of the sale, and swappers who move the high value usernames over to fresh Instagram accounts out of the reach of their original owners.Are you a member of the OGUsers community? Did you receive this cease and desist? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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