Snapchat reacts to hacking group releasing
millions of phone numbers
Snapchats users security has been compromised due to a
security flaw allowing anonymous group called SnapchatDB to post millions of
snapchat users number on the web using the Find Friends option, They first
acknowledged this flaw several months ago so why was it not fixed? They claimed
they had implemented safeguards to “make it more difficult” for people to match
up user names and phone numbers, which they conceded “theoretically possible”.
Soon later SnabchatDB uploaded its database of 4.6million
users.
Snapchat regularly refers to this as abusing our service
however are they just being lazy, their problem was pointed out months ago and
the option to opt out of find friends was only implemented now, not even a full
fix of the problem, so users who are new or unfamiliar with snapchat or
technology in general will still be vunerable to their information being posted
on the internet exposed to spam and abuse.
Overall I believe that due to this only being phone numbers
it isn’t as big of a deal as if it were to be addresses and more personal
information, so in this case snapchat is not being blamed as hard, I don’t see
why SnapchatDB would even have any reason to post this data, is it to point out
snapchats flaws? Humiliate them? Or just prove something to them selves…
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