WASHINGTON — Snapchat videos and pictures are supposed to disappear forever moments after being taken and shared.
It doesn’t always work out that way.
Thousands of Snapchat videos and pictures have been posted online, some after apparently being leaked from a third-party website where they had been stored, according to ZDNet.
Up to 200,000 users of Snapchat may have had images hacked. Hackers claim to have 13GB of images.
How it happened isn’t clear.
Snapchat says its servers weren’t breached.
“We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we explicitly prohibit in our terms of use precisely because they compromise our users’ security,” the company told The Guardian.
Snapsaved.com is a website that lets SnapChat users save the images sent to a user.
On its Facebook page, Snapsaved acknowledged it had been hacked.
“As soon as we discovered the breach in our systems, we immediately deleted the entire website and the database associated with it. As far as we can tell, the breach has effected 500MB of images, and 0 personal information from the database.”
