This giant leak comes just days after Gibson Security’s latest interview in which the company warns of Snapchat’s vulnerabilities. The last two digits of each phone number have been censored “in order to minimize spam and abuse,” but the owner of the database says that “under certain circumstances,” the site might be willing to release the uncensored records. "We also have no idea about how many users use third-party apps but we strongly recommend they don't and we work very hard to get them removed from the iTunes App Store and Google Play as they crop up," the spokeswoman added.Snapchat users beware: someone has posted the phone numbers and usernames of more than 4.6 million accounts on the site SnapchatDB, freely available as an SQL dump or CSV text file for anyone to download. However, Snapsaved issued its statement on Saturday, while the Snappening itself occurred on Sunday.Ī spokeswoman for Snapchat told CNET that the company does not share its user numbers externally. Our users had to consent to all the content they received via, as we mentioned, we tried to cleanse the database of inappropriate images as often as possible. The hacker does not have sufficient information to live up to his claims of creating a searchable database. The recent rumors about the snappening are a hoax. As far as we can tell, the breach has effected 500MB of images, and of personal information from the database. As soon as we discovered the breach in our systems, we immediately deleted the entire website and the database associated with it. Snapsaved also explained the hack into its system and attempted to downplay the so-called "Snappening." Snapsaved has always tried to fight child pornography, we have even gone as far, as to reporting some of our users to the Swedish and Norwegian authorities. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed." In a statement released late last week, Snapchat said: "Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security. Snapchat has attempted to distance itself from any blame for the Snapsaved debacle. However, he did say there were around 100 megabytes of nude photos and videos.
But one Reddit user cited by The Guardian said the "'The Snappening' did not live up to its billing." Most of the files were "low resolution garbage," claimed the user. People who downloaded the images said they contained a large amount of child pornography, according to The Telegraph. And on Sunday, around 13 gigabytes of the hacked Snapchat content were reportedly posted in an event called "The Snappening."īut there is a question over what the files actually revealed.
Warnings appeared on 4chan on Friday that the hacked photos would be leaked, The Guardian said.
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