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Drafting 10-Oct-2014 21:43 – City.- If ever you sent a compromising photo by Snapchat you may be circulating on the Internet. Hackers managed to breach the SnapSaved database, a service that allowed users to save images they received in their accounts. The masterminds were trying to say more than 13GB of photos and video including images of explicit content minors are included.
A few days ago, many website users 4Chan.org the same that was used to filter images of actresses like Jennifer Lawrence was presumed that they had up to 200,000 images that users were sending friends Snapchat or known by the application.
Snapchat confirmed CNNExpansión filtration but said that their systems were not violated.
The mobile app is one of the most popular digital services teen on the planet. The program enables users to send images or video and choose how long you want your message to be visible 10 seconds-before-until it self-destructs.
DigiDay, a specialized web services firm estimates that Snapchat has about 30 million users, who send about 700 million photos and videos per day of which 50% are young people between 13 and 17 years.
Its functionality has led to the proliferation of practices like sexting, which consist of sending pictures or videos of explicit content within the application.
Because images Snapchat are destined to disappear decision sender automatically, some developers sought to give the possibility to save receptors such content permanently.
What gave life to web services like SnapSave and Snapsaved, requesting the name and password of Snapchat to link content account and copy.
According to feedback from some 4Chan users, the breach by hackers was SnapSaved.com service, which is currently disabled, which managed to extract the 13GB of information.
hacked files contain not only the image and video, but also reflect data with the date and name of the affected user
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hackers failed to undermine Snapchat systems, the company confirmed to CNNExpansión filtering of images and warned that using services like SnapSave SnapSaved and Android are illegal and at your own risk.
“We can confirm that Snapchat servers were not compromised nor are the source of these leaks. The Snapchatters were affected by the use of third-party application to copy Snaps, a practice expressly forbid our use policy precisely because compromise user safety, “a spokesman Snapchat.
The company He added that constantly monitor app stores iOS and Android in search of this type of illegal applications to be removed.
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