Hackers warn up to 200,000 nude images sent through Snapchat will be leaked

‘The Snappening’ ... hackers warn 200,000 nude photos and videos sent via Snapchat could be leaked. Picture: Getty Images Source: Getty Images

HACKERS have warned up to 200,000 nude pictures and videos sent via Snapchat will be published on a searchable database, in an event dubbed “The Snappening”.

An anonymous 4chan user claimed earlier this week to have obtained illicit pics shared through Snapchat, the app which allows users to send pictures that self-delete within seconds.
New messages posted on 4chan say that the snaps, collected by a third-party Snapchat client app, will be released this weekend in an event called “The Snappening”.
Snapchat is playing down the threat, telling The Daily Mail its service is not to blame for any leak.
“We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks,” a spokesperson said.
“Snapchatters were victimised 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.”
The photos are expected to be released on October 12 and will be uploaded to a searchable database.
Snapsave has been named as the third-party app that was hacked into, however an anonymous photo trader told Business Insider it was SnapSaved.com