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| Explicit Snapchat images leaked via third party, reports say | Explicit Snapchat images leaked via third party, reports say |
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| Explicit images sent via Snapchat have reportedly been leaked from a third-party app in an event being dubbed the “Snappening”. | Explicit images sent via Snapchat have reportedly been leaked from a third-party app in an event being dubbed the “Snappening”. |
| Some 200,000 users of the app, many of whom are teenagers, have allegedly had their photos gathered by the third party over a number of years before the pictures were posted on a website. | Some 200,000 users of the app, many of whom are teenagers, have allegedly had their photos gathered by the third party over a number of years before the pictures were posted on a website. |
| The nickname “Snappening” is a nod to last month’s “Fappening”, in which nude pictures were stolen from the iCloud accounts of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Rita Ora and Kim Kardashian and posted online. | The nickname “Snappening” is a nod to last month’s “Fappening”, in which nude pictures were stolen from the iCloud accounts of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Rita Ora and Kim Kardashian and posted online. |
| Snapchat allows users to share videos and images that disappear 10 seconds after being received, but it is possible to save the pictures by taking a screen grab in that time. | Snapchat allows users to share videos and images that disappear 10 seconds after being received, but it is possible to save the pictures by taking a screen grab in that time. |
| No images have been published and there is speculation that the leak could be a hoax but some reports said the leaked images were stored on the servers of a website called Snapsaved, where Snapchat users could save their screen grabs rather than keeping them on their device. | No images have been published and there is speculation that the leak could be a hoax but some reports said the leaked images were stored on the servers of a website called Snapsaved, where Snapchat users could save their screen grabs rather than keeping them on their device. |
| Snapchat said it was not the source of the leak and prohibited the use of third-party apps, which are created by separate developers as add-ons. | Snapchat said it was not the source of the leak and prohibited the use of third-party apps, which are created by separate developers as add-ons. |
| A spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were allegedly 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. | A spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were allegedly 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. |
| “We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.” | “We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.” |
| The Snapchat app came under fire earlier this year after hackers published user names and phone numbers on a website. | The Snapchat app came under fire earlier this year after hackers published user names and phone numbers on a website. |
| Police and children’s charities have previously warned teenagers of the dangers of using the app to send explicit images. | Police and children’s charities have previously warned teenagers of the dangers of using the app to send explicit images. |
| Half of Snapchat’s 4.6 million users were between 13 and 17 and there is concern that many of the leaked images may be of children. | Half of Snapchat’s 4.6 million users were between 13 and 17 and there is concern that many of the leaked images may be of children. |