Rome – A stratagem devised against Snapchat, or third app that takes advantage of the sharing service in time of photos and video, has given rise to the spread of a archive content Private 13-gigabyte . After “The Fappening,” the dissemination of images of very private VIP, so netizens are located in front of “The Snappening.”
The news of the spread of private content is filtered again before to 4chan , whose users have already created a database: hosted on viralpop.com , allows to to search by user name Snapchat . According to users of 4chan, however, in the large archive of content there would be numerous pictures of male private parts, as well as images and videos of child pornography: indeed half of the students at sharing service consists of adolescents between 13 and 17 years old.
Now began the hunt for the culprit as Snapchat is not new to security issues, so as to end up in the crosshairs of the FTC, this time he firmly rejected the accusations made against him and via Twitter reported to be able to “confirm that its servers were not violated and are not the source of the leak.”
“Users – reads a statement Snapchat – were victims of the use of third-party app, a practice explicitly prohibited by our terms of service because of security reasons. ” The responsibility, therefore, would be attributed to an app that others have for years collected the content files exchanged on the platform for the exchange of images and video.
According to some sources he was the victim of the attack would have been computer service Snapsave , app for Android that lets you save photos and videos Snapchat that would otherwise be automatically deleted once viewed through the official app Snapchat: its CEO Georgie Casey, however, said that his app “has nothing to do with this story “, because it does not save the basic content online. According to other sources behind the leak would be instead a flaw in SnapSaved.com , web client for Snapchat that allows users to watch online pictures and video received.
Claudio Tamburrino
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