Snapchat's Security Vulnerabilities Fail to Disappear

If only Snapchat’s security problems would vanish as quickly as its self-destructing messages. Alas, fans of the ephemeral photo-sharing service found out this week that there’s no self-destruct button for their Snapchat data once it has leaked online.

An anonymous hacker on Tuesday published a database on SnapchatDB.info containing millions of usernames and their corresponding phone numbers, and the leaked information quickly ricocheted across the Web. The situation comes as little surprise to anyone who has been following the company. For months, security experts at an Australian outfit called Gibson Security have been warning about Snapchat’s vulnerabilities. Here’s a nugget from a report published in August:

“Using our Snapchat API implementation, someone could save media sent to them … and as we recently found, build a database of Snapchat usernames and phone numbers, connecting names to aliases easily, and with further work connecting social media accounts to entries.”

In recent days, executives at Gibson Security have hastened to note that they were not involved in the leak. “We know nothing about SnapchatDB, but it was a matter of time til something like that happened,” the company wrote on Twitter (TWTR).

Source: businessweek

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