hackers managed to leak the personal details
love 4.6 million snapchat users for those of you who are unfamiliar with
that
ap it allows people to take a picture or video and then send it to another user
and then after that person be use it for a few seconds it's a posted disappear
but we know already that it doesn't necessarily disappear it does get saved
in database
that %uh snapchat moderators have really now
all the important thing to keep in mind that this recently kids it doesn't have
anything to do with pictures and videos or pictures and videos have not been
leaked however
your phone number could be tied it to your user name and that information will
be available online
now just to give you a sense of what they did the hackers obtained the
information by exploiting a vulnerability in chess match at spine
friends interface
which allows users to uploader address book contacts to help find friends
who are also using the service so basically people who use snapchat
usually have some sort of handle
I I don't know puffer fish 21 yeah I Met Your Uninstaller story did earlier
and then what these hackers did they manage to you
take that username entire phone number to it
right so that's a little problematic right and if it shows that those types a
boner abilities exist
what does it mean for the type of photos and videos are sending is a far-fetched
that hackers can somehow find a way to expose that
I should also note that there is a company known as Gibson security
that let that out like told snapchat about what was going on said hey you
know what here's a weakness you guys should fix that
and they were hesitant to do so well I think that they're pretty I'm remorseful
for that I know this is my favorite part of the story so Gibson security goes to
snapchat like a week or two before the sleep happens in today
you're probably going to have a week though and here's a vulnerability then
later
after the league they set up a website so that you can look up and see if you
were actually violated by the sleek yet they claim it had nothing to do with
backpack
yeah I know about it later it's like they caught they called up snap general
you know would be a
be really horrible son what happened to you secure yeah
really really bad news I would hate to see something happen where would ruin
your
company yeah and they said no and then they what happened and then the great
thing about it was the next time
there's like your friendly neighborhood hacker writes so they they see a
vulnerability
they hack at the public telephone numbers but they don't publish the last
two digits
in the database because they want to make sure that people are still I'm
granted you could bury
probably yeah there is like an hour but someone somewhat easily
go through you have to really want to call that person that I guess but the
fact that they
didn't take some measures to still protect their security it's really just
a function a
we want to prove to you that you had a vulnerability you can operate your
business
play also can I just I'm criticize those who are naive enough to think that
snapchat
will provide any type of security or any type of privacy
but I get it people wanna send nudie pictures right hardcore sex videos or
whatever it is
does just don't just don't bring in do it I don't know how many times you have
to give that advice
I mean I know someone you probably don't care about kids week but I know the vast
majority of people do care
which is why they're using the service in the first place but there's so much
that you can learn from someone who's using snapshot without them even
realizing that you're learning about them
you know it's not chart reveals the top three people that you
chat to you right are you send snaps to you all you have to do is look at their
handles and then you find out exactly who they aren't like oh this person is
sending sacks
to this person I mean that information is so easily
the a readily available and I just want people to be aware that
don't believe for a second that they care or they're really protecting your
security I just assume from the very beginning I've never use naps at why I
remember when it first came out people talked about it and I was like the sack
with terrible
yeah and I just I just assume from the beginning that I mean the founders like
in his 20s right I remember seeing them on Jon Stewart
so like he didn't develop this whole app so that he could get a bunch of fucking
nudie pictures
right late working really hard to find on the internet a
but the like this like goodwill gesture
that he now had like a huge database a vaulted himself