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Instagram owned by Facebook is working on a non-SMS two-factor authentication system that would work with security applications like Google Authenticator and generate a special login code in case of theft or hacking.
"We're Continuing To improve the security of Instagram accounts, including strengthening 2-factor authentication," TechCrunch was citing an Instagram spokesperson.
A prototype version of the updated two-factor feature in the Android version of the Android application code was discovered and tweeted by an engineer named Jane Manchun Wong.
Technology companies like Google and Facebook have already developed tools to protect themselves from the vulnerability of SMS-based two-factor authentication.
Google uses its digitally generated Authenticator code application with a strict time limit and Facebook now uses a similar tool built into the Facebook application itself.
The photo messaging application lacked pro-two factors until 2016, when it already had 400 million users.
Later in the year, the company began deploying two-factor authentication.
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