More than 100 000 pictures and videos from Snapchat fell on the Internet – View

The Snapchat application allows you to send images and deletes them, allegedly, seconds after they have been viewed by the recipient and is therefore very popular among young people – about half of the users of Snapchat are teens between 13 and 17 years old. Now, over 100 000 photos and videos sent through the application over the last few years have been published on the Internet by hackers.

At issue is the use of external applications requesting access to the registration data in Snapchat to allow storing images.

In a statement, Snapchat ensures that there was no failure security on their part. “We can confirm that the servers were never compromised and Snapchat are not the source of these leaks.’s snapchatters were victims of the use of third-party applications to send and receive snaps , a practice we prohibit expressly in our terms of service, precisely because it compromises the safety of our users. “

In January, a group of hackers published the phone numbers of 4.6 million users in the United States to exhibit the alleged failures of application security.

This case comes weeks after the first wave of intimate images of celebrities have appeared online, stolen from Apple’s iCloud. And according to The Guardian , behind the new theft may be precisely the same responsible for the publication of photos of stars.