You witnessed “The Fappening”, the internet slang used to refer to the event that occurred on August 31, 2014, where over 200 private photos of various celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Megan Good were leaked on online discussion site 4chan.
A bigger leak dubbed “The Snappening,” by 4chan users is on it’s way as Business Insider gathered that a massive amount of nudes photos, many feared to be of teenagers aged 13-17 years, were obtained by hackers who targeted photo messaging application Snapchat.
Though, Snapchat have been susceptible to various hacks in the past years, a statement they released claimed there were no breach of security on their servers and suggested that the hack might have been possible through Snapsave, a third-party app that lets you save Snapchat transmissions.
A tweet from Snapchat twitter account read:
“We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks.
“Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our ToU(Terms of Use).”
Meanwhile, Engadget contacted Snapsave developer Georgie Casey; he denied that the hack had anything to do with his application.
He said: “Our App had nothing to do with it and we’ve never logged username/passwords.”
4chan users are in the process of creating a searchable database of the hacked pictures to allow easy accessing by Snapchat usernames.
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