The site was removed several months back, and no longer exists. Unfortunately, the site was storing all the “private” Snapchats on a web server, along with the usernames of senders. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.”Īccording to Business Insider, the “third-party app” in question is reportedly, a web client compatible with Snapchat that allowed users to store photos and videos sent from Snapchat online. Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users’ security. “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. In a written statement, Snapchat’s spokesperson claimed that the app’s servers were not compromised: Soon after, the site was deleted-but not before thousands of people downloaded the large file of stolen photos and videos, which was once again shared like crazy on 4chan and Reddit. The 13.6 GB file was first posted online via, a bogus website. Unlike “The Fappening,” the victims are split fairly evenly between males and females, but like “The Fappening,” much of the content is explicit in nature. The Daily Beast can confirm that despite rumors of a hoax, the leak is genuine, and most of the affected users hail from Europe, which makes up 32 percent of its overall audience, according to Snapchat. Now, there’s “The Snappening”-a leak of approximately 90,000 photos and 9,000 videos stolen off the mobile app Snapchat. It was reportedly pilfered via “brute force” attacks-attempting thousands of key combinations-since the iCloud places no limit on the number of passwords one can try. Night Shyamalan disaster The Happening, the cache of stolen content spread like wildfire on the message boards 4chan and Reddit. A crude portmanteau of “fapping” (online slang for masturbation) and the M. First came “The Fappening,” wherein hackers breached Apple’s online storage system iCloud and leaked hundreds of private nude photos and videos of female celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Cara Delevingne, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and others.
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