Latest Snapchat photo leak shows why you don’t use third party apps for sensitive data

Source: www.nexus-one-central.com --- Saturday, October 11, 2014 If you're not like me and don't live by the "nothing is ever truly deleted on the internet" mantra, then perhaps you need to simply watch what you're doing online. SnapChat has worked hard to improve their security since being a victim of a data breach last year. The breach allowed a group of no-gooders to leak 4.6 million usernames and the phone numbers associated with them. So what's going on today? Well, another leak has happened, but it's important to note that this isn't a "breach." A large database of over 100,000 photos was posted online by people at 4Chan and consists of photos sent to and from many of the service's users. The photos weren't swiped from SnapChat's servers, but from the servers of third party apps and sites that allow you to save SnapChat photos for long-term keeping. Here's SnapChat's take on the issue: We can confirm that SnapChat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed. Indeed, one 4Chan user confirms that the photos originate from SnapSaved, not to be confused with a similarly named app with a similar purpose named SnapSave (the latter of which ...

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