Friday, January 3, 2014

I guess I'm glad I never tried Snapchat as it has been hacked!

http://snapchatdb.info/ which holds a publicly available, ahem, snap of the database is rather brazen! Facebook was to pay a few billion to get their hands on Snapchat's user base. Now they, and everyone else, may have it for free.

Addendum: The user base may not easily be available although it is out there and certainly some have it. I found a story online this morning suggesting that the published database has the last two digits of each phone number obfuscated.

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  1. Glad that i didnt use my regular name then :-) and you cant see to which people you send receive messages right? Will look at the data when im behind my desktop.

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    1. I found http://www.cnbc.com/id/101306419 this morning suggesting that the last two digits of the phone numbers have been hidden in what was published.

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