Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked • Hacker News Board

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by X4 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 12:48 PM UTC

jkelsey wrote: post #36

untog wrote: post #21

Not at all surprised. Anyone that used the app would be suspicious of the backend behind it. Should have taken that $3bn while you had the chance.

Still too early to make those types of statements. I think it mostly depends on how much the media plays this up.

we are kind of the media.. and reddit is too.. I also believe that they made a fatal error by not selling everything for $3bn then jumping aboard. To not have anything to do with the "soon to come security issues". I mean they could have mentioned it and downplay it as they did just recently. I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them.

For us it was really really good that he rejected the offer! Because otherwise we would see the trade market crash $3bn, guess who would have to pay loss.. we..

well, if he saw that coming, which I doubt, he would be a hero.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by X4 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 12:52 PM UTC

rmc wrote: post #149

TylerE wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Phone numbers are hardly private information.

Disagree. I suspect they would fall under personal data in the European Union under the Data Protection Directive.

indeed. rmc is right.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by X4 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 12:55 PM UTC

pa5tabear wrote: post #139

stefan_kendall wrote: post #73

This is only useful in wide-net fishing attacks, most of which I'm guessing no one here would fall for. Anyone interested in you particularly will quickly get your phone number, email address, facebook profile, social security number, or whatever they want if they're determined enough. Even then, I'm not sure what information this database really provides that could be used to gain some fraudulent or exploitive benef…

Can you really quickly get a social security number?

ehrm in sweden, yes.. those people are so mad that they allow a reverse search!!! I made payment gateways for companies there and was surprised by that.

What's really sad is that, if all those phone numbers were already public, I guess nobody would have cared to create something like SnapChat in the first place..

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 1:35 PM UTC

cenhyperion wrote: post #99

Just like to remind everyone that snapchat was aware of this exploit and dismissive in regards to it. http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/27/5249304/snapchat-dismisse...

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Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by meerita » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 1:39 PM UTC

I feel good i didn't get into the Snapchat train before.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by lucb1e » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

ateevchopra wrote: post #127

They censored the last two digits of the phone numbers. And if you goto google's password recovery option, it shows you the last three numbers of a someone's phone number. Just saying.

Why do you even share your phone number with Google?

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by lucb1e » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 2:13 PM UTC

aheilbut wrote: post #142

I guess I'm dating myself, but didn't we used to call that the phone book?

Fuck, misclicked downvote (wanted to upvote). Really great how HN does not allow changing votes at least once. Sorry for that, but yeah good point.

Nowadays one or a few phone numbers are unique to you, which makes it linkable to other things. Linkability is something that breaks privacy, so if you don't want your full name to be known somewhere, it is important to be able to keep things separate. When your phone number goes public (e.g. resumé and snapchat), that anonymity is broken.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by hostsuspend1 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 2:13 PM UTC

SnapchatDB here: Our hosting account has been suspended. For further contact please use: snapchatdb@Safe-mail.net, or the original Bitmessage address (BM-2cTPMALzgYTkM8A96g2iwTjGHQUuNSwamp)

You can confirm my identity by messaging the original Bitmessage address which was captured by http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1u4xss/snapchat_phon...

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by JacobIrwin » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

kevinjones wrote: post #126

jlgaddis wrote: post #120

Download links were broken for me so I've mirrored them here (converted from zip to bzip2): CSV: http://evilrouters.net/schat.csv.bz2 SQL: http://evilrouters.net/schat.sql.bz2

Or just use port 8080 to bypass their Varnish server: http://www.snapchatdb.info:8080/schat.csv.zip http://www.snapchatdb.info:8080/schat.sql.zip

8080s aren't working, but jlgaddis's downloads are...

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by jodrellblank » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #156

ateevchopra wrote: post #127

They censored the last two digits of the phone numbers. And if you goto google's password recovery option, it shows you the last three numbers of a someone's phone number. Just saying.

Why do you even share your phone number with Google?

http://www.google.com/landing/2step/