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Tuesday 1 November 2022
Instagram trying to reconnect users

locked out of accounts

(AP) — Instagram said it
was working on an issue
that left a seemingly large
number of users locked out
of their accounts Monday
morning.

Some users reported see-
ing a message that they
were locked out but were
still able to scroll through
their feeds. Others posting
on Twitter said they were
completely shut out. Some
reported that their number
of followers dropped, pre- issue or whether the so- inconvenience."
sumably because those cial media site had been
accounts were locked. hacked. Users flooded social media
"We are aware that some platforms about the issue
The number of people com- Instagram users in different and Instagram acknowl-
plaining of being locked parts of the world are hav- edged the problem on
out of their accounts be- ing issues accessing their Twitter at 10:14 a.m. East-
gan to spike around 8:30 Instagram accounts," said ern. In a couple of hours,
a.m. Eastern. a spokesperson for Meta. the tweet had received
"We're working to resolve more than 14,000 com-
It was unclear whether the the issue as quickly as pos- ments and was retweeted
problem was an internal sible and apologize for the more than 40,000 times.q

White House invites dozens of nations

for ransomware summit

(AP) — The White House underscore the urgency of
is bringing together three the issue and the summit.
dozen nations, the Euro- The official previewed the
pean Union and a slew of event on the condition of
private-sector companies anonymity.
for a two-day summit start-
ing Monday that looks at Among the administration
how best to combat ran- officials planning to par-
somware attacks. ticipate in the event are FBI
Director Christopher Wray,
The second International national security adviser
Counter Ransomware Sum- Jake Sullivan, Deputy Trea- Commission, France, Ger-
mit will focus on priorities sury Secretary Wally Adey- many, India, Ireland, Israel,
such as ensuring systems emo and Deputy Secretary Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithu-
are more resilient to better of State Wendy Sherman. ania, Mexico, the Neth-
withstand attacks and dis- President Joe Biden is not erlands, New Zealand,
rupt bad actors planning expected to attend. Nigeria, Norway, Poland,
such assaults. the Republic of Korea, Ro-
Participating countries are mania, Singapore, South
A senior Biden administra- Australia, Austria, Belgium, Africa, Spain, Sweden,
tion official cited recent Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Switzerland, Ukraine, the
attacks such as one that Croatia, the Czech Repub- United Arab Emirates, the
targeted the Los Angeles lic, the Dominican Repub- United Kingdom and the
school district last month to lic, Estonia, the European United States.

Companies that will take
part include Crowdstrike,
Mandiant, Cyber Threat Al-
liance, Microsoft, Cyberse-
curity Coalition, Palo Alto,
Flexxon, SAP, the Institute
for Security + Technology,
Siemens, Internet 2.0, Tata
– TCS and Telefónica.
The previous summit took
place virtually.q