The users of 4Chan have named this hack as The Snappening, while we will call it SnapChat Hacks.
The database is said to contain 200,000 images of SnapChat users.
SnapChat is a online messaging and image sending service with a unique quality of self destroying messages.
Image taken during a review of SnapSave on www.comboupdates.com
The leak finally arrived yesterday.
SnapSave
Preliminary reports indicate that not one but two SnapChat clients servers were hacked.
First reports appearing on Dagbladet.no indicated that a third party SnapChat client called SnapSave was hacked.
Image taken during a review of SnapSave on www.comboupdates.com
SnapSave was a working Android App which allowed the SnapChat users to save the otherwise destructive messages.
The other hack
Another source toldBusinessInsiderthat the hacked third party App was actually SnapSaved.
However SnapSaved also met the same fate as SnapSave.
Image taken during a review of SnapSave on www.comboupdates.com
It too disappeared several months ago.
Now the URL redirects to a Danish e-commerce site that sells set-top boxes and television antennas.
But multiple evidence point towards the fact that it may indeed have been SnapSaved that was hacked.
The Index of SnapSaved parent directory
For one, the majority of the intercepted Snapchat photographs posted online featured overlaid messages in Danish.
Users are warned that watching/sharing/promoting ped images is a federal offence in many countries including USA.
SnapChat says it is not at fault, anonymous leaker says sorry for the leaks…Read about ithere.
source: www.techworm.net
