Instagram app attacked by spam advertising 'miracle' fruit diet A company advertising a 'miracle' fruit diet hacked user's profiles, posting images of fruit and changing the URL in bios The spam may have hit 30,000 Instagram users GigaOm says this may be the first large-scale spam incident on the app Hacked: Upwards of 30,000 Instagram users were spammed yesterday in what may be the first large-scale attack on the picture-sharing app Instagram was plagued Saturday with a spam attack that hacked into users accounts and posted images of fruit with a link to a 'miracle' fruit weight loss company. The problem was first reported by Om Malik on GigaOm who said that the spammers were posting the fruit photos to the user's profile and changeing the URL in the person's bio. At the time, 30,000 people had clicked on the link which sent them to a fake BBC page. Facebook, which owns Instagram, did release a statement, but didn't get into details on how the spammers broke through. Earlier today, a small portion of our users experienced a spam incident where unwanted photos were posted from their accounts. The problem was solved relatively fast with targeted users being sent a password reset. Fruity spam: The spam that attacked Instagram Saturday advertised for a 'miracle' fruit diet Malik hypothesized that this was the first large-scale spam attacks on the app. 'I wouldn't characterize it as a "small portion" of users,' Malik wrote in the post. 'The Facebook/Instagram team still hasn't offered an explanation as to what went wrong.' To avoid the problem in the future, a Facebook spokesman said to keep all of your online passwords unique which keep the problem from spreading. 'Spammers are posting the photos to a user's profile, as well as changing the URL in that person's bio.'