More than 100,000 nude photos sent via Snapchat have been stolen by hackers, who threaten to spread them on the Web.
After the stars, pirates are attacking ordinary mortals! Snapchat users could in turn be confronted with the leak of their erotic photos. Over 100,000 photos and videos transmitted by the app of ephemeral photos over a period of several years, a total of 13 GB, were stolen by hackers and saved on a database, which will likely go live this Sunday, according to 4chan users. The cause of this leak, already named « The Snappening » (referring to Fappening that Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities have been victims of)? The vulnerability of third-party applications. Indeed, Snapchat immediately reacted and denied any responsibility in a statement to the site. MailOnline : “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were not breached and are not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters have come under attack for using third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Service. »
According Business Insider, it would be the Snapsave or Snapsaved sites the source of this leak. These applications allow Snapchat users to automatically save their data exchanged through the famous application. This leak, in addition to compromising the privacy of thousands of anonymous people, is all the more serious in that it includes child pornography, since most Snapchat users are between 13 and 17 years old. According to the hackers, it will be possible to search by username stolen photos. A scandal that could serve to Slingshot, le Snapchat version Facebook launched a few months ago.
