Third party Snapchat client was invaded, tens of thousands of photos, nearly 13G private photos

Although the true mystery of the rise of Snapchat and "pornographic text message (sexting)" does not matter, but just burst out of this news really let me for Snapchat pinch a cold sweat.

According to the BI message, a third party's Snapchat client has been storing the photos that should have been read and burned, and recently hacked to get nearly 13G of photos/videos. Even more frightening, some good people have also made the downloaded Photos/videos searchable database, placed in the infamous, recently burst celebrity pornographic door 4chan forum for others to use Snapchat user name for search.

It is not clear which Third-party services are associated with the spill, but Bi speculates that the culprit is likely to be the snapsaved.com that is now closed.

At stake, Snapchat quickly clarified that "Snapchat's servers have never been hacked, unrelated to this leak," and that "the use of Third-party applications to send and receive snaps is expressly prohibited by us in terms of use, as this poses a risk to user security." We are closely monitoring the App Store and Google Play on the illegal Third-party applications, and a lot of shelves. ”

Social networks such as Snapchat often encourage third-party developers to develop new gadgets and new gameplay on their platforms, but the security implications of Third-party services require extra attention, or they might be easy targets for hackers to steal user data.