- 200 000 private snapchat images astray – Dagbladet.no

Users of one of the world’s most popular photo sharing applications, snapchat shall be subject to hacking.

There should be Snapchat themselves are hacked this time, but a program that allows you to save images from snapchat.

The idea behind Snapchat is to be able to send picture messages to a recipient without the recipient will be able to save the image. Image available for up to ten seconds for the receiver.

However, more applications, which Snapsave, Snapsaved and Snaphack, allows recipients of one snapchat message store images without the sender know about this .

It will be one of these receiving applications is now hacked.

People who have sent down images on Snapchat can thus be struck even if the not even use a receiver program, as the recipient of the image can be saved image with the help of a mottakerprgram, without the sender know it.

Snapchat has over one million users in Norway.

Intimate pictures

Dagbladet is illuminated from an informed source that deals with around 200,000 images to be stolen. Among these there are thousands of what you have characterized as intimate photos. Many of the images are of very young people.

Half of snapchats users are between 13 and 17 years.

– Most cars are stolen seems to belong to users from Denmark and Norway says the source.

Snapchat writes in an email to Dagbladet that they have nothing to do with the leak:

“We can confirm that Snapchats servers are broken into , and is the source of these leaks. Users of Snapchat are victims of use of third-party applications that store snaps, a practice we explicitly forbids our policies precisely because they compromise the user’s safety. We’re actively App store and Google play to monitor the illegal third-party applications and has succeeded in getting many of sdisse removed. “

According to the person of thousands who claim to be asked hacking it Snapsave program that is causing the leak. The developer of Snapsave Georgie Casey, denies this to engadget.com.

The Business Insider writes that it may be Snapsaved program that is hacked.

The hackers should have control over user accounts and phone numbers of users they have pictures of. The closed online forums have hackers stated that they are working to link the images to the identity, then make searchable image database. How will they make it possible for other Internet users to find people they know.

Not familiar with the burglary

– Snapchats functionality, which has a kind of built-peron mechanism, as the images are not stored in them to send photos to, we seem initially sympathetic. But we can see that there are programs that allow these images can be stored anyway, says communications director Ove Skåra the Inspectorate to Dagbladet.

– Users of Snapchat, at least the praise, know enough that these images can stored. But there is the further element when those applications that store gets hacked, says Skåra.

Inspectorate had not been made aware of datainnbruddet before Dagbladet called them this morning.

– Council of us are the same as we often do: If you have pictures that are not intended for the public, is it unsafe if you have it on a phone, and more unsafe if you dirstibuerer it says Skåra.