But security researchers have found similar issues with other services in the past, including Twitter, which retained direct messages between users for years after they were supposedly deleted. For Instagram, the company says it usually takes around 90 days to completely remove data. Whenever we delete data from online services there is usually a lag of some unspecified time before the data is fully removed from the site’s servers. It’s not clear how widespread this issue was and whether it affected all Instagram users or only a subset of them, but it’s certainly not an uncommon problem. We thank the researcher for reporting this issue to us.” “We’ve fixed the issue and have seen no evidence of abuse.
“The researcher reported an issue where someone’s deleted Instagram images and messages would be included in a copy of their information if they used our Download Your Information tool on Instagram,” a spokesperson for Instagram told TechCrunch. “We’ve fixed the issue and have seen no evidence of abuse.”
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