4.6 million Snapchat accounts exposed via known exploit
The site, called SnapchatDB.info, first went live on Tuesday but has since been taken down. TechCrunch reports that before the site was closed, its unknown authors explained the reasoning for their actions, stating they simply wanted to "put public pressure on Snapchat to get this exploit fixed." While the Snapchat user names were exposed, the last two digits of the phone numbers were blurred on the site.
Last week, the Gibson Security firm stated that known exploits with SnapChat's API could allow anyone to extract user names and phone numbers from the service. Snapchat later tried to downplay the security firm's findings on their official blog, claiming that in theory, anyone could upload a list of all the phone numbers in the U.S. and then make "a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way." The company claims that it has taken steps to make this harder to accomplish but did not go into details. So far, Snapchat has yet to comment on this new leak of user information.
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CraigPosted:
LiaCraigyy I'm glad i never downloaded that horrible disease of an application.
It's a rather pointless app to use, there are much better apps out there such as facetime if you want to see what people are doing.
Snapchat is for idiots lol. For people to look even more stupid to their friends.
DissPosted:
Craigyy I'm glad i never downloaded that horrible disease of an application.
It's a rather pointless app to use, there are much better apps out there such as facetime if you want to see what people are doing.
Beans_Posted:
Craigyy I'm glad i never downloaded that horrible disease of an application.
Same never downloaded and never will!
sotaPosted:
Disc woah, didnt know that i just made my snap chat hopefully doesnt happen to me
I might, hopefully not just watch what you send
DongPosted:
Luxe Nothing has happened to me, but that sucks for the others that had problems
I haven't had any problems either luckily. I would hate for someone to get a hold of my butt pics.
sotaPosted:
KatsumiZoidberg I love snapchat. I'm glad I don't send anything too embarrassing
Some people send completely stupid things over it.. kind of dumb it you ask me
Yeah alot of it is there fault if anything is private and leaked for that
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