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Over 90,000 private Snapchat photos have been leaked online via third-party site

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Images apparently leaked via Snapsaved.com, not from SnapChat

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More than 90,000 private photographs sent via the Snapchat picture messaging service have been leaked online. The images have apparently been obtained by breaching third-party site Snapsaved.com and not from Snapchat itself.

Snapchat offers a free messaging service with users able to send a message that disappears after ten seconds. However, Snapsaved.com enabled Snapchat images to be saved permanently.

The breach is particularly concerning because most Snapchat users are teenagers - and the service has a reputation for being used when sharing intimate images.

Nicknamed ‘the Snappening’ by some people, this breach is the latest in a series of online hacking incidents that have revealed personal photos.

Snapsaved says 500MB of images have been taken from its servers. It has now closed the site.

[Snapsaved announcement via Facebook; Channel 4 News; The Daily Beast]

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What's of contention is where the files originated from with an anonymous pastebin user now saying that a snapsaved administrator provided the files after uploading to an unintended site, claims that are being contested. Nevertheless another pastebin user this afternoon has offered to sell a cache of files containing the contents of the server in question, based on timestamps and other data, and includes 88,521 still images and 9,173 videos....

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2014/10/snappening-leaks-real-90k-photos-videos-content-explicit/

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