Oh dear . In an inauspicious outset to 2014 for both Snapchat and its users , a websiteappears to have published substance abuser name and phone figure selective information for 4.6 million account .
The leak user info fromSnapchatDBmatches phone numeral to drug user name , and was in retrospect probably inevitable . Just a week ago , a group of researchers cry themselves Gibson Security not only publicize how easy it would be to take data like this from Snapchat , but detailed how one might go about doing it . And so someone has !
fortuitously — well , comparatively — the mind behindSnapchatDBhave shew some constraint , blur out the last two digits of earphone numbers to “ derogate insult . ” They are offering , however , to show the full listings “ under sure circumstances . ”
The security department fix that allowed the breach has since been patch , but it ’s impossible to say if Snapchat did so before the data catch into more nefarious hands . Which seems to be the percentage point of SnapchatDB in the first place . According to its authors :
This information was get through the recently patched Snapchat exploit and is being shared with the populace to raise cognizance on the issue . The company was too loath at patching the exploit until they get it on it was too late and company that we hope with our information should be more thrifty when dealing with it .
Hopefully SnapchatDB will curb itself to that same standard .
To see if your username is part of the leak , you canuse this book — found byTNW — that was handily throw together by developers Will Smidlein and Robbie Trencheny . And even if you seem to be in the clear , maybe now ’s a good chance to make estimable on that answer to protect your privacy that much well in the new year . [ SnapchatDB ]
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