elEconomista.es | Agencies
10/10/2014 – 18:54
- This time the affected users are thousands of Snapchat
- Many of the images belong to ‘conversations’ between children
We have done it again. The hackers have broken up a popular communication service smartphones and have accessed, stored and subsequently published hundreds of thousands of autofotos conducted mostly in private.
If the CelebGate those affected were principally users famous Apple (all women), in this new massive hole affected are much less known and common link is that they are all service users instant chat Snapchat.
the fact that this service is often used to share very private content is given, since its main feature is that the recipient can only see the content that is sent temporarily, before it self-destructs. A picture thus received is theoretically impossible to keep to the recipient.
The stolen content totaling no less than 13 gigs of still and moving images whose protagonists probably not even know that their mmomentos ‘s private life has just been made available to millions of people around the world.
Snapchat has been quick out explanation, and pointed out that the stolen contents belong to those users utilizing applications not officers.
“Snapchat servers have not been violated and are not” the source of this leak, “says Snapchat, also blames the Snapchatters :” have fallen victim to use third party applications that allow them to send and receive ‘snaps’, a practice that we have always prohibited in our policies. “
From Snapchat have also pointed out that his company continuously monitors and stores App Store Play Google looking for this type of illegal applications, and have been successful in eliminating them.
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