Virtual Pants

Security researcher Sebastián Guerrero has posted some details on an apparent security vulnerability within Instagram. Guerrero claims to have discovered a method for forcing any Instagram user to follow another account. That would mean that private Instagram accounts would be accessible to a malicious user, to say nothing of forcing non-private users into following other accounts they may not want to.

Uh oh.

UPDATE:

Instagram says that the bug was not “taken advantage of at any other scale other than very minimal experiments” and most importantly, “The bug was resolved.”