Snapchat hack affects 4.6 million users

[Catchy]

The usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million Snapchat accounts have been downloaded by hackers, who temporarily posted the data online.A website called SnapchatDB released the data but censored the last two digits of the phone numbers.
It has since been taken offline but a cached version is still available.
The hack comes days after an Australian firm, Gibson Security, warned of vulnerabilities in Snapchat's app which it said could be exploited by hackers.
Gibson Security said it was not involved in the hack: "We know nothing about SnapchatDB, but it was a matter of time till something like that happened," the firm tweeted (https://twitter.com/gibsonsec/status/418234810201415681).
The hackers behind the website that published the data said they had exploited the security flaw highlighted by Gibson Security.
"We used a modified version of gibsonsec's exploit/method," they werequoted as saying by tech blog (http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/31/hackers-claim-to-publish-list-of-4-6m-snapchat-usernames-and-numbers/), Tech Crunch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25572661

appaz you can use this to see if ur info has been leaked http://lookup.gibsonsec.org/

[lucaskf390]

Who uses snapchat?
I heard about multiple hacks today, Credit Cards, Snapchat ...

[Catchy]

Who uses snapchat?
I heard about multiple hacks today, Credit Cards, Snapchat ...

over 4.6 million users apparently lol

[OldLoveSong]

ok appaz my data wasnt leaked

[Drewar]

Ouch, that really sucks for those people. Thankfully my information was not leaked.

I am definitely a snapchat user, it is one of my 3 favorite apps. I bet the creators of SnapChat are regretting turning down the 3 billion dollar offer that Facebook made.

[!x!dude!x!2]

woo im safe

[xxMATTGxx]

According to something I have read on Reddit, the leaks might be only limited to so many states in the USA. Not sure how true that is though.

[Hannah]

I'm glad I don't use the app, to be fair - but it could happen with a lot of apps.

[Aiden]

You're safe

Don't worry, your data wasn't leaked.

[xxMATTGxx]

You're safe

Don't worry, your data wasn't leaked.

How do you know that? :P

[MKR&*42]

Lmao oh dear my friend got it like 2 days ago (if that) and tried to persuade me to sign up, glad I didn't ;)

[Aiden]

How do you know that? :P

Well, I don't know! But positivity will help everybody through this situation! :Content:

[xxMATTGxx]

Well, I don't know! But positivity will help everybody through this situation! :Content:

I wouldn't post stuff like that personally as some people will think it hasn't been stolen in the end then when in fact by the looks of it, some data has been stolen/leaked. Whether yours has or hasn't is a different thing altogether.

[Aiden]

I wouldn't post stuff like that personally as some people will think it hasn't been stolen in the end then when in fact by the looks of it, some data has been stolen/leaked. Whether yours has or hasn't is a different thing altogether.

People shouldn't believe everything they read! :D

[Mark]

I wouldn't post stuff like that personally as some people will think it hasn't been stolen in the end then when in fact by the looks of it, some data has been stolen/leaked. Whether yours has or hasn't is a different thing altogether.

I swear he just c+p the response he got when he put his details in? Meaning his reply to the thread is that his data wasn't leaked lol?

According to that site I'm safe lol

[xxMATTGxx]

I swear he just c+p the response he got when he put his details in? Meaning his reply to the thread is that his data wasn't leaked lol?

According to that site I'm safe lol

Ah yeah. God damn it, we need to use quotation marks more often! :P

[JACKTARD]

Love snapchat!!

I'm safe, probably wouldn't stop me using it anyway

[Futz]

Says I'm sweet but me and all of my friends got added and sent a picture by a bot around the same time so it probably has been

I don't really care if my number or snapchat has been leaked though if i'm honest

[xxMATTGxx]

Snapchat said today it would alter its app to make it harder for malicious users to collect and leak millions of usernames connected to phone numbers. The move comes after a group calling itself SnapchatDB rang in the New Year by leaking 4.6 million partially redacted phone numbers, in a stunt they said was designed to raise awareness about security flaws in Snapchat's app.

The leak was made possible by the app's Find Friends feature, which lets users find any friend who has shared a phone number with the service. SnapchatDB used the feature to upload a huge volume of phone numbers to the service to discover Snapchat accounts linked to them, and created a searchable database of the results. "We will be releasing an updated version of the Snapchat application that will allow Snapchatters to opt out of appearing in Find Friends after they have verified their phone number," Snapchat said in its blog post. "We're also improving rate limiting and other restrictions to address future attempts to abuse our service."

No messages or other data beyond usernames and phone numbers were leaked. But Snapchat faced criticism in the wake of the leak, in part because concerns that users' phone numbers could be scraped en masse had been publicized by security groups for months. Snapchat initially dismissed those worries. Today, it posted an email address that white-hat hackers can use to notify the company of potential exploits: [email protected]. "The Snapchat community is a place where friends feel comfortable expressing themselves," the company said, "and we're dedicated to preventing abuse."

Update: Gibson Security, the group which originally warned Snapchat about the vulnerability in August, has responded to Snapchat's blog post. Offended by Snapchat's response to to its efforts, GibSec points out that Snapchat doesn't actually claim that the vulnerability has fixed, and has yet to apologize to its users.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/2/5267784/snapchat-to-offer-security-fix-in-the-wake-of-leaked-user-data

[Jack!]

I'm not in the leaked data it would appear.

[mrwoooooooo]

it is only american numbers