Hackers disclose thousands of photos, including children – TVI24

In Snapchat application, users send photos and videos to go off automatically after a few seconds or number of views. Even so, the hackers managed intercetá them and released thousands of photos, including of children.

And this is, indeed, the most troubling part of this attack. Is that half of the users of Snapchat have between 13 and 17 years only. Estimates are that have been published around 200 000 images on a 13GB file, on Thursday of last week.

The situation is being much discussed and analyzed in the forum 4chan, being compared with the recent attack on the iCloud, which became public intimate photographs of celebrities, including actors Hollywood. The scale of the problem, this time, appears to be higher, not only by the number of photos, as the fact of involving children and young people. There will be up, according to the ‘Business Insider’ images of naked minors.

Snapchat has come to explain that their servers’ were never violated. ” The problem is that there are alien to this service applications that allow you to save the files that were supposed to fall into oblivion. This type of practice “is specifically prohibited, in accordance with our Terms of Use, precisely compromise the security of our users’ highlights.

come to think that the Snapsave could have been the culprit. But the charge of developing this application for Android does not warrant that: “Our application has no relation to this case and do not store passwords and logins’, also said in a statement quoted by Engadget.

One is that the images were provided by the site viralpop.com hackers, known to install malicious programs on computers. However, it has been phased out, but even so, this measure has not stopped thousands of people do the download photos. Users of 4chan forum are developing a database so you can find images and videos from the names of the users of Snapchat.

responsible for this service promise to monitor the App Store and the Google Play when it comes to illegal applications. Security expert of ESET, Mark James, explains that it is not enough to fix blame on others. And do not just give the perception that an application is secure: “We must make it safe,” he stressed.
Although at this point it is no longer possible to make any download, hackers threatened to publish more images. Some people doubt the authenticity of the same. This only know later.