Snapchat Breach: What's Next
Found on InformationWeek on Saturday, 04 January 2014
Snapchat, a mobile photo-messaging app created for wiping out traces of the messages for privacy reasons, this week was hit with a major breach of its users' privacy that exposed names and phone numbers of some 4.6 million of its customers. The data dump came after security researchers published a proof-of-concept for a weakness associated with the "Find Friends" feature.
They had a lot of time to react to the reported security issue but decided to ignore it, and later downplay it, claiming it's pretty unrealistic. Now the it has happened and suddenly, there's an update? Too little too late.