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If you follow some links it wont take you long to find your favorite celebrity's personal cell phone number. I think that's kind of a story.


That's very unlikely. The article is misleading in that the reporter seems to believe that emails / phone numbers are never exposed by Instagram. In fact "influencers" typically choose to set up an Instagram Business Profile containing email and / or phone number. So this is almost ceratinly public information that was scraped, not private information obtained via a breach. Assuming your "favorite celebrity" is a movie star, popular musician, etc, any contact info is very likely for their social media manager, not for them personally.




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