Hackers have a database with, say phone numbers of 4.6 million Snapchat users online. It was already known that the phone numbers of Snapchat users to find out, but the service took a long time, no action.
The database was put online through the site SnapchatDB.info. According to the creators of the site, the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million users, which is obtained through an exploit that recent poem. “The company was unwilling to patching until they knew that it was too late,” said the hackers, who declare that the publication is intended to raise public awareness of security risks.
The last two digits of the phone numbers have been blurred ‘spam and abuse’, but the hackers have shown themselves willing to release. According to them the numbers also relate to Facebook and Twitter accounts because people often use the same username handle.
Snapchat was reportedly already months ago informed of the exploit, but responded there is not. On 27 december, the service still known measures taken and Snapchat be when already on the possibility that a database containing usernames and phone numbers could be compiled. Details about the measures gave the service.
The patches came after Gibson Security explained did how the vulnerabilities to abuse. The security experts claimed that Snapchat four months after the handing over of the details of the leaks, still no action is taken.
Incidentally, it seems only to American and Canadian users to go and there is some confusion, or the published phone numbers are authentic. Some users on the internet that their phone number is found, while others via Hacker News let them know that their number is not right and all gebiedsnummers seem to be missing. An editor from TechCrunch indicates that the number in the database.
