Son’s ‘mate’ has hacked his Instagram

[Joynot]

I’m so annoyed
What would you do?

Ds stupidly had a convo about passwords whilst logging in to school system. His ‘mate’ has taken his password and logged on to his instagram, shown other mates a video, thankfully nothing too embarrassing. Now he’s adding himself to his chats, says he’s trying to logout but his phone won’t let him. But won’t delete the app, because it’s too much hassle to set it back up.
Ds can get into his Instagram, but it doesn’t kick this other kid out
They’re 13
This kid said it was just a laugh, doesn’t realise anything about privacy

Presumably your ds has changed passwords now. Can he not undo the joined chats?

Changing passwords hasn’t kicked the other kid out of his Instagram though. He can do what he wants in there

Take his phone, go to Instagram, see if you still have control over the account. See if you can change the email associated with the account, then change the password.
Do that with all of your Ds's accounts and dont let him have the new password or control over the email address. He isnt mature enough to deal with internet security yet, and he might be trying to curry favour with this other kid.

You should also think carefully before you let him do any online shopping, or use any app that has in app purchases.

If he has set up multiple users take control and close the account.

The email is my email, he doesn’t have any other SM
I can get in and change the password, I have done that. But because this kid is still logged in it he can still see everything and make changes
Me changing the password doesn’t log this kid out. If he logged out he wouldn’t be able to get back in. I think.
I could cancel the account, but I won’t know if this kid can still log in and what he might do.
I need to force this kid to logout and make him realise that this is serious breach of privacy

I've just looked at my own account... if you go to Settings then Login Activity, this shows where I've logged in and on what devices - it also gives a "log out" option for each of these. Will this log your DS's friend out?

This was on the website rather than the app.

Yes as Soup Dragon says, you should get an option to log out other devices. If not, try logging in on a laptop or PC.

Changing the password wont log him out but here's a way to log out individual sessions if location is switched on;
Go to the three horizontal bars top right,
click settings>Security>Login activity then you can see where you’re logged in by town.
Click the three dots next to the location you want to log out of and click log out.
Log out all previous sessions and hopefully you can kick him out. Then change the password.

If that doesnt work, delete the account as the main account holder, there wont be anything for him to log into. It sounds like he's added it at a second account, its not his main account so he doesn't control it.

Its not just him that's the problem, its also your son. I don't think it counts as hacking because your son gave him the password. Who do you want to talk to him about it, will the school step in?

I've just done the same as @soupdragon but on the app. That should do the trick

How exactly is it hacking? Your kid told him the password! Stupid thing to do but a good lesson in internet safety.

Yes - go to settings/security/log in activity and you have the option to log out any devices listed.

Once you've logged him out he should t be able to get back in if you've changed the password.

The mate took his school password and used it to get into Instagram. Without his permission or knowledge and pretended to be him, sent messages, viewed private messages, videos and photos and conversation.
What would you call it Sionnach?

I'd call it being a dick and a kid that needs to be told off (at least). But it ain't hacking if you are freely given the info, which he was.

Back in the day on Facebook they used to call it fraping (fb raping) which was a horrible term.

which was a horrible term

So why on earth would you use it here?

@SoupDragon

which was a horrible term

So why on earth would you use it here?

Plenty of terms I disagree with that I see on here all the time! That's the closest thing I can think of but I hate the phrase myself.

Op try what a couple of PP have mentioned above, you can log other devices out of your son's Instagram.

If not resolved by tomorrow contact HoY?

As PP said, log all the active sessions out and change the password (and use the2 factor authentication)

Hope you get it sorted. Thank god there's nothing too personal on there.

Would this idiot log into the school account too? If so you might need to change password and let school know of the blip. Bet it happens a lot.

You can actually go to the police. If your son’s mate is in England or Wales he’s over the age of criminal responsibility and he’ll find he’s committed an offence under the computer misuse act.

If you can wait until Monday I would get the school to deal with it. If not, you do have the option of involving the police. I’d probably try to resolve it otherwise, but report it to the school on Monday.

Ring the school!

I think I’ve done it!

Fingers crossed!

I guess your son has learnt a valuable lesson :)

Glad the mean kid has been kicked out hopefully