Snapchat was cracked by hackers and information of 4.6 million users was leaked.

Recently, the personal information of 4.6 million snapchat users has been published to a website called SnapchatDB.info (which cannot be opened). The published information includes the user name and the corresponding phone number. It is reported that, all the affected users are in North America, with the majority of users in the United States, including a small number of Canadian users. However, SnapchatDB is not fully open to users due to security concerns, the last two digits of the number are hidden.

Snapchat is a "burning after reading" photo sharing application that has been established for more than two years. The main function of this application is that all photos have a life cycle of 1 to 10 seconds. After a user takes a photo and sends it to a friend, these photos will be automatically destroyed on time according to the preset time. If the recipient tries to do so during this period, the user will be notified. At present, snapchat only has 8 million users in the United States, and the number of pictures shared by the world exceeds 0.15 billion times a day.

Snapchat is hailed as the most promising Internet product. It was founded by two Stanford universities. Although there is no clear profit model, the Giants are optimistic about its future prospects, snapchat has just rejected facebook's $30 million purchase price on the grounds that the price is too low.

SnapchatDB said the leak only serves to remind the public to raise their security awareness when using Internet services. In a statement written to TC, they expressed their position in this way.

Our primary motivation for releasing this user information is to remind users to raise their awareness of protection and remind snapchat that technology companies should not put the security of user information in the second place, it should be as important as user experience.
We used the method published by Gibson Security. If Snapchat can respond to Gibson Security communication, it can completely avoid this data leakage. Snapchat does not take necessary measures to protect the data even if the data is leaked. Once we
We do not want to expose the user information completely. We want to remind users not to trust the technology company in protecting user information too much. As for the second goal, I would like to remind snapchat that you do not want to eat in a restaurant that spends millions of dollars in storefront decoration, but does not spend a penny in cleaning work.