2014年10月13日星期一

App Behind The Snapchat Leak Admits It Was Hacked, Apologizes

App Behind The Snapchat Leak Admits It Was Hacked, Apologizes

A website with the aim of tolerable Snapchat users to save images with the aim of were invented to disappear thought it was hacked and apologized on behalf of allowing thousands of concealed photos to be present leaked online.

Featuring in a Facebook stake this weekend, Snapsaved.Com thought its servers were breached due a “misconfiguration." The situate allows Snapchat users to save images exclusive of the sender knowing. It is not affiliated with Snapchat, the app with the aim of lets folks drive images with the aim of disappear considering a dumpy age.

“Snapchat has not been hacked, and these images perform not originate from their file,” Snapsaved's Facebook stake thought.

Carry on week, folks used the online message board 4chan to circulate an estimated 200,000 concealed photos sent using Snapchat.

A Snapchat orator carry on week denied the company had been hacked and thought its users were wronged by third-party apps with the aim of Snapchat prohibits for the reason that they pose a security hazard.

For the reason that Snapchat images are invented to disappear, many folks employment the photo-sharing app to drive racy photos. In the region of partly of Snapchat’s users are involving 13 and 17 years old, raising questions of whether a little of the leaked images may well be present considered childish person pornography.

Featuring in its Facebook stake, Snapsaved thought it “has forever tried to fight childish person pornography” and thought it has “even spent in the same way as far in the same way as to coverage a little of our users to the Swedish and Norwegian the system.”

“We tried to wash the file of inappropriate images in the same way as often in the same way as likely,” the stake thought.

It's not absolve who is behind Snapsaved. The website was down on Monday, and its Facebook stake thought it "immediately deleted the whole website and the database" considering discovering the breach featuring in its systems.

The leak of thousands of Snapchat images was specifically the hottest security breach to product featuring in concealed photos being shared online. Carry on month, hackers broke into the iCloud accounts of numerous celebrities and circulated their naked photos across the Internet.

Snapchat has been repeatedly criticized on behalf of privacy and security problems. Featuring in might, Snapchat developed charges with the Federal Trade Commission with the aim of it had deceived users in the region of the vanishing nature of messages sent through the service, in the region of how much data it collected and in the region of its security measures. Featuring in January, unspecified hackers in print the phone figures and usernames of 4.6 million Snapchat users.

Snapsaved thought with the aim of Snapchat doesn't deserve critique this age.

“I honestly say sorry on the behalf of snapsaved.Com we in no way wished on behalf of this to go on,” the Facebook stake thought. “We did not yearn for to cause Snapchat or else their users a few injure, we solitary wished to provide a unique service.”


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