You are downloading 4.6 million users’ phone number information, along with their usernames. “Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources,” reads the message.Īccording to Forbes, the website originally informed the general public that the leaked usernames of Snapchat users could be leveraged to obtain their Facebook and Twitter profile names: It’s scary to think that anyone could get someone’s phone number off the leaked Snapchat database. At post time, the website was offline with a message saying “This account has been suspended”.

Is there a way to see if you’ve been affected? Yes, there is. Snapchat has been aware of the security loophole in its application since August, but did literally nothing to patch it. Why did they do it? The leaked private information “is being shared with the public to raise awareness” of a Snapchat API exploit they’d used for the hack. The circa 40MB SQL database dump (also available as a CSV file) includes phone numbers and usernames, along with the affected users’ geographical region information.

Bad news, Snapchat fans: a group of anonymous hackers have successfully exploited a nasty security hole in the popular IM application to hijack a whopping 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers, publishing this private data on a website called.

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