User data for the popular social media service Instagram has been leaked and is being sold online on a website for US$10 (RM42.70) each, according to a report by the technology news site Ars Technica today.

The news portal said it had been contacted regarding the website by a person who claims to have scraped together the data of six million Instagram users and compiled it into a searchable database.

The website offers to allow a search of the website for US$10 per query, and its operator had purportedly provided Ars Technica with a sample of data from 10,000 users...