A third-party application may be to blame for the leaking of thousands of Snapchat images.
Snapchat said in a tweet that users “were victimised by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use”. According to the Guardian, photos and videos were captured after some Snapchat users used a site called “Snapsaved.com” that offered to let them use the service on a website on a desktop computer, rather than just on a mobile phone.
However that site appears to have been maliciously saving the users’ login details and storing the photos and videos that were posted. An app called Snapsave, which offers similar functionality but whose developer says it only stores photos on the user’s mobile phone, is not believed to be involved.
By getting a user’s username and password, the site could authorise itself to Snapchat’s servers, and receive or send pictures they viewed through it but could also store it without the knowledge of the user or Snapchat.
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