Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked • Hacker News Board

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#101

Post by wahnfrieden » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 6:42 AM UTC

frasierman wrote: post #82

Threw together a quick script to check if you're affected... http://robbiet.us/snapchat/

Ha, what. Your site says I'm leaked but gives a totally wrong phone #.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#102

Post by elnate » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 6:44 AM UTC

As a casual user, can someone explain the implications for me? They seem to have my username and phone number combo; can they use these for nefarious purposes?

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by cenhyperion » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 6:51 AM UTC

babby wrote: post #84

belluchan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not wish they would torrent this. People, think about it. Personal, private phone numbers. Why would you want this information? Seriously the comments here make me sad for humanity right now.

>Why would you want this information? >Hacker News >Hacker

That's not really the definition of hacker in regards to hacker news.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by alaskamiller » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 6:51 AM UTC

elnate wrote: post #102

As a casual user, can someone explain the implications for me? They seem to have my username and phone number combo; can they use these for nefarious purposes?

If you're not a hot underage teen girl, then prob not. But now it blows up the spot for where a lot of teens are hanging out. Now it's another step to getting to you if some creep wants to. Or take it to a grander scale, it creates a viable link of who a person and their digital mask is.

That's kind of the thing about privacy. It's kind of slipping away, but if you don't care that it is then it's prob cause it doesn't matter to you yet.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#105

Post by scaramanga » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 6:53 AM UTC

CSV: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bab9548c3770188c70d27ded9b22348f5b979713&dn=Snapch at+database+CSV&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80 &tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftrack er.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp% 3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

SQL: magnet:? xt=urn:btih:f7b1cec6280edb8169d63550ba2dfb224df7810d&dn=Snapch at+database+SQL&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80 &tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftrack er.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp% 3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

Both: magnet:? xt=urn:btih:fae9c0a8b2eee2f9cc31c713f21a4cda4083612b&dn=Snapch at+Database+CSV+%26amp%3B+SQL&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbitto rrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp %3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.d e%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by patio11 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 6:58 AM UTC

elnate wrote: post #102

As a casual user, can someone explain the implications for me? They seem to have my username and phone number combo; can they use these for nefarious purposes?

Among other things, it means that the cell phones of people who have predictable user names are now very easy to discover. I don't use SnapChat, but if I did I would be patio11 on it. My cell is fairly closely guarded. You could imagine some people with similar situations who'd be at higher risk of misuse, because of a higher public profile, higher perceived payoff for contacting, notoriety, or demographic interest to people with poor impulse control.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#107

Post by MichaelGG » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:01 AM UTC

mwally wrote: post #98

jrockway wrote: post #43

I have list of all US phone numbers: 000-000-0000 000-000-0001 ...

They start with 200-200-0000.

The "first" NPA is 201, and from there the first assigned NXXes are 200, 202 and so on. 201-201 is unavailable. (According to the latest LERG update I have.)

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

#108

Post by vikp » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:05 AM UTC

I made a site to check if you are affected by this leak: http://www.snapcheck.org . Happy new year, everyone (although on a bad note...)

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by OedipusRex » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:06 AM UTC

This is what a sample looks like

"31755501XX","username","Indianapolis"

The XXs hide the last two digits of every number. The list is also massively incomplete.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by akosner » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 7:14 AM UTC

I have a theory. Last week there was a big story about how Facebook was “dead and buried” because teens didn’t want to be on a service that their parents had moved into. Now, when it comes to security, the parents care a lot more than the kids. Could Snapchat be playing fast and loose with the security of their user data as a way of scaring away the grownups?

This would be a clever ploy but for one damning fact. A large share of Snapchat’s users are minor children. Could anyone, from the CEO of Snapchat to the perpetrators of SnapchatDB really think that risking the broadcasting of the phone numbers of 12-year-old girls and boys is a risk worth taking?

For more, see: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/01/01/4-6-mil...