Snapchat team responded to this accusation very casually, “Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way. Over the past year we’ve implemented various safeguards to make it more difficult to do. We recently added additional counter-measures and continue to make improvements to combat spam and abuse.”
Now a website called SnapchatDB.info has been created by a group of hackers exposing 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers to the public, along with the region of that person’s phone number. The site allows anyone to download this entire database full of 4.6 account information as a SQL dump or as a CSV text file. For some reason I was unable to download either of those. However, according to VentureBeat, the leak appear to be real and contains valid personal information of Snapchat users. Well, it seems like the Gibson Security was right all along.
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Snapchat is still keeping silence on this matter. It was not only disappointing how they responded to the accusations of exploits in the first place but now they will have to face the embarrassment of being wrong. According to reports, Snapchat ignored this security flaw for four months.
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