![]() ![]() Therefore, everyone who sends a message using SnapChat's service could be at risk," Wardle said. "This is an interesting scenario because the sender of an image doesn't know if the recipient is using a third party service like or other third party applications. "It is important to keep in mind that while an initial product or service may be quite secure, plug-ins, add-ons, extensions and third-party offerings used with it may not be subject to the same high levels of security, reliability or confidentiality."Įven Snapchat users who did not use third-party apps could be victims, said Patrick Wardle, director of research at crowd-source security startup Synack. Whether the incident is a hoax or "one of 4chan's elaborate hoaxes," says Aryeh Goretsky, a research with security firm ESET, app users need to practice restraint. There is concern that since Snapchat, which Yahoo reportedly is set to invest in, skews to a younger crowd, many of the photos will be of minors - and could amount to child pornography, if viewed. Snapchat photos and user names were saved on the third-party site, which has since gone out of service online, according to Business Insider's report. ![]() 4chan users have downloaded 13 Gigabytes' worth of photos and videos and are creating a database to search the stolen images. Underground photo-trading chat rooms have been abuzz recently with a big event, Business Insider reported. On its Twitter feed, the messaging service confirmed that users photos had been compromised, but that they "were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our ToU."Ī second tweet, Snapchat said, "We can confirm that Snapchat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks." Within the traditional Snapchat app, photos and videos that users send to friends "disappear" after several seconds. Hackers were able to collect user photos and videos sent through a third-party app that lets you save Snapchat transmissions. The compromising Snapchat photos and videos are in the process of being leaked onto popular online forum 4Chan, the same site that housed the first leaked nude photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities. Hackers are planning a massive online leak of as many as 200,000 photos and videos, many of them nude, captured using photo messaging app Snapchat. Watch Video: Hackers to leak thousands of Snapchat pictures ![]()
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