In a statement, the company said: 'Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practise we expressly prohibit in our terms of use because they compromise users’ security. Snapchat has come out to say that its servers have not been breached. Some people are suggesting that the photos have already been leaked online before and have just been aggregated into a single file.īecause of the huge amount of attention The Snappening is getting, there are a lot of opportunistic people posting fake files, files containing viruses and links that requires users to pass through multiple websites with advertising on them - presumably to generate revenue from curious web users. Some of the files have Snapchat usernames attached to them, meaning that they can be searched for more easily.ĭespite Snapchat’s reputation for the transmission of nude pics, the file is mostly made up of more mundane photography.
Given the nature of Snapchat’s user base (50% of users are aged between 13 and 17) and the fact that some people use the service to send nude selfies, there’s a strong chance that the file contains child pornography. 10 Boys Arrested For Allegedly Using Snapchat To Make Child Porn CBC Nov 14, 2013, 12:51 PM EST Updated Ten boys, aged 13 to 15, appeared in youth court in Laval, Que., today to face child pornography charges, after a school teacher caught a boy with explicit photos allegedly taken with the smartphone application Snapchat.
