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200,000 private Snapchat images astray

68 points by PaulSec 12y ago

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- praseodym 12y ago
  The sender of the pics wouldn't know that the receiver uses Snapsave.
praseodym 12y ago
So Snapsave, which saves photos and videos received in Snapchat on your own device, also uploads them to their servers? That's pretty damn creepy.
- 3fuff 12y ago
  As do all the internet nodes, mobile network hubs and their accompanying spy/malware, that your pics use to travel from your phone to those servers...
  - duaneb 12y ago
    Those aren't intentionally indexed and persisted.
awjr 12y ago
The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted. Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be classified as child porn (sub 18 pics).
- Lrigikithumer 12y ago
  Snapchat is a very young people oriented app 50% of all users are aged 13-17 which almost definitely means that there are significant amounts of illegal pictures being hosted. This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images? The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine would make them very liable and open themselves up to legal troubles in that domain too, and I can't help but feel sorry for the people who did send these pictures who had them stored against their knowledge by someone they may have cared about and are now out there for any perv to grab a copy of.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images? I find it hard to believe, what makes Snapsave different from any other file hosting service? As far as I know, no service provider is liable unless they are aware of any specific illegal content being uploaded.
- NicoJuicy 12y ago
  Actually, i'm 27.. But the app itselve is quite funny while dating (except the best-friends visible part)
  - gaastonsr 12y ago
    You can turn it off.
    - izelnakri 12y ago
      how?
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C7E0F338E42448 12y ago
what is a private snap?
- rasz_pl 12y ago
  its an oxymoron
pgl 12y ago
More information can be found here: http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/the-snappening-snapchat-accounts-hacked/ http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... Edit: NSFW, sorry for not noting that earlier.
- Lrigikithumer 12y ago
  I don't like how this guys reporting it like a big game, it's really messed up.
- tonylemesmer 12y ago
  NSFW
- bruceb 12y ago
  That guy is a piece of shit for actually posting some of the pics. Can we find out who he does business with. Who hires him?
  - ElCapitanMarkla 12y ago
    I'm betting it's fake. I tineyed a few of those pics from the "leak" and they've been around for ages.
- k3oni 12y ago
  Well there goes his database: "Error establishing a database connection" :). Here is a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ4PioJ:kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/the-snappening-snapchat-accounts-hacked/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ...
bruceb 12y ago
I wonder if this will hurt snapchat. $10bil valuation and this breach hits at the heart of their product. Maybe yahoo can withdraw their $20mil if they have not actually handed it over.
ghshephard 12y ago
So - what are the odds that this is yet another spoof?
ElCapitanMarkla 12y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a fake. This Kenny Withers guy - (NSFW) http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/the-snappening-snapchat-accounts-hacked/ http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... seems to be posting it to a bunch of different news sites who are all reporting it now. Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.
- KennyWithers 12y ago
  I understand the confusion that you may have regarding this "Snappening" event. I am Kenny Withers, the one that chronicled the original chatter on 4chan and blogged about it. My only purpose for exposing this event was to create awareness of the now confirmed leak of almost 100,000 stolen images and videos from the snapsaved.com website. My website has suffered outages as a result of this event, the website overloaded my old webhost and they did not have the ability to scale to handle the traffic. I have since switched hosts. To read more about the details of this discovery, please read the following Forbes article: forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/10/snapchat-hack-not-a-hoax-says-snappening-chronicler/ Thanks
- SaturateDK 12y ago
  This is interesting, as he seems to be working in Marketing it could be a stunt, right?
  - bhouston 12y ago
    A stunt that is designed to kill the app Snapsave.
    - tonylemesmer 12y ago
      but doesn't it also brilliantly highlight the inherent problem with Snapchat?
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kbart 12y ago
I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.
- userbinator 12y ago
  Good question. A lot of people don't believe in DRM, which operates on a very similar principle, but maybe because Snapchat is perceived as user-friendly while DRM isn't? It's not as if they don't know about the analogue hole either - a lot of people who have absolutely no clue about how a computer works will, when asked to take a screenshot, point their camera/phone at the monitor.
- MichaelGG 12y ago
  "Because the other phone will automatically delete it, right?" Even programmers end up doing things like putting ctitical validation into client-side code. Most people will not have even thought about Snapchat not working as advertised.

68 points by PaulSec 12y ago

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praseodym 12y ago
The sender of the pics wouldn't know that the receiver uses Snapsave.

praseodym 12y ago

So Snapsave, which saves photos and videos received in Snapchat on your own device, also uploads them to their servers? That's pretty damn creepy.

3fuff 12y ago
As do all the internet nodes, mobile network hubs and their accompanying spy/malware, that your pics use to travel from your phone to those servers...
- duaneb 12y ago
  Those aren't intentionally indexed and persisted.

awjr 12y ago

The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted. Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be classified as child porn (sub 18 pics).

Lrigikithumer 12y ago
Snapchat is a very young people oriented app 50% of all users are aged 13-17 which almost definitely means that there are significant amounts of illegal pictures being hosted. This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images? The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine would make them very liable and open themselves up to legal troubles in that domain too, and I can't help but feel sorry for the people who did send these pictures who had them stored against their knowledge by someone they may have cared about and are now out there for any perv to grab a copy of.
- icebraining 12y ago
  This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images? I find it hard to believe, what makes Snapsave different from any other file hosting service? As far as I know, no service provider is liable unless they are aware of any specific illegal content being uploaded.
NicoJuicy 12y ago
Actually, i'm 27.. But the app itselve is quite funny while dating (except the best-friends visible part)
- gaastonsr 12y ago
  You can turn it off.
  - izelnakri 12y ago
    how?

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C7E0F338E42448 12y ago

what is a private snap?

rasz_pl 12y ago
its an oxymoron

pgl 12y ago

More information can be found here: http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/the-snappening-snapchat-accounts-hacked/ http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... Edit: NSFW, sorry for not noting that earlier.

Lrigikithumer 12y ago
I don't like how this guys reporting it like a big game, it's really messed up.
tonylemesmer 12y ago
NSFW
bruceb 12y ago
That guy is a piece of shit for actually posting some of the pics. Can we find out who he does business with. Who hires him?
- ElCapitanMarkla 12y ago
  I'm betting it's fake. I tineyed a few of those pics from the "leak" and they've been around for ages.
k3oni 12y ago
Well there goes his database: "Error establishing a database connection" :). Here is a Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ4PioJ:kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/the-snappening-snapchat-accounts-hacked/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ChdulMZ...

bruceb 12y ago

I wonder if this will hurt snapchat. $10bil valuation and this breach hits at the heart of their product. Maybe yahoo can withdraw their $20mil if they have not actually handed it over.

ghshephard 12y ago

So - what are the odds that this is yet another spoof?

ElCapitanMarkla 12y ago

I'm pretty sure this is a fake. This Kenny Withers guy - (NSFW) http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/the-snappening-snapchat-accounts-hacked/ http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... seems to be posting it to a bunch of different news sites who are all reporting it now. Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.

KennyWithers 12y ago
I understand the confusion that you may have regarding this "Snappening" event. I am Kenny Withers, the one that chronicled the original chatter on 4chan and blogged about it. My only purpose for exposing this event was to create awareness of the now confirmed leak of almost 100,000 stolen images and videos from the snapsaved.com website. My website has suffered outages as a result of this event, the website overloaded my old webhost and they did not have the ability to scale to handle the traffic. I have since switched hosts. To read more about the details of this discovery, please read the following Forbes article: forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/10/snapchat-hack-not-a-hoax-says-snappening-chronicler/ Thanks
SaturateDK 12y ago
This is interesting, as he seems to be working in Marketing it could be a stunt, right?
- bhouston 12y ago
  A stunt that is designed to kill the app Snapsave.
  - tonylemesmer 12y ago
    but doesn't it also brilliantly highlight the inherent problem with Snapchat?
  - deleted 12y ago
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kbart 12y ago

I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.

userbinator 12y ago
Good question. A lot of people don't believe in DRM, which operates on a very similar principle, but maybe because Snapchat is perceived as user-friendly while DRM isn't? It's not as if they don't know about the analogue hole either - a lot of people who have absolutely no clue about how a computer works will, when asked to take a screenshot, point their camera/phone at the monitor.
MichaelGG 12y ago
"Because the other phone will automatically delete it, right?" Even programmers end up doing things like putting ctitical validation into client-side code. Most people will not have even thought about Snapchat not working as advertised.