Oh, no!
A 13.6 GB file containing tons of stolen photos and videos from Snapchat were posted on a website called Viral Pop over the weekend.
The site was quickly deleted, but not before the content was downloaded and widely shared across the Internet. The images were mostly of people from Europe, and many were explicit in nature.
Two third-party Snapchat services have been mentioned in connection to the hack, an app called Snapsave and website SnapSaved.com. Both the app and website allow users to store photos sent through Snapchat.
Snapchat has voiced out and mentioned that the hackers did not breach the system by hacking into Snapchat servers. Instead, they hacked into Snapsave.
Snapchat has come under fire in the past for its vulnerability to security breaches. Back in January this year, 5 million Snapchat users’ names and passwords were revealed by a third-party hacking service.
Snapchat released a statement on Friday addressing the hack, blaming its users: “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks.”
“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. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.”
If you’ve been sexting or sending over explicit content on Snapchat, now’s the time to re-evaluate your actions and the credibility of the app.
