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Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by aabalkan »

It's taking too much time to download each file even they're 40 MB. I wish they put it on as torrent in the first place.

Regarding the leak, yeah, that actually happens when you focus on the product but security and reliability of your system. Snapchat, Whatsapp and many others are hacked numerous times and yet it still happens.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by smtddr »

>>The company was too reluctant at patching the exploit until they knew it was too late

Did they give Snapchat enough time to fix this before releasing this data?

NOTE: I've heavily edited this comment because when I first read the website I thought snapchat ignored the people who found an exploit but re-reading, it's no longer clear to me that releasing this data is not pure malice.

NOTE2: The link from couchdive's comment makes this more interesting - http://www.zdnet.com/researchers-publish-snapchat-code-allow... - but still, the webpage hosting the data said the exploit was fixed, so it wasn't ignored, so... I don't know what the purpose of releasing this data was.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by pedalpete »

What does snapchatdb hope to accomplish by allowing people to download the db. Just showing and proving that you've hacked the database should be enough to get the company to respond. They're probably not hurting snapchat as much as the potential damage to the people who's phone numbers and usernames are being dowloaded.

Re: Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

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Post by belluchan »

Looks like they are using WhoIsGuard to protect the domain whois information. The terms of WhoIsGuard[1] include not violating the privacy of others:

> defame, abuse, harass, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

I've sent WhoIsGuard an email. Hopefully they'll revoke service. Shame on the people that published this private information. They aren't hurting just Snapchat. Revealing personal information like this can cause real problems for people.

[1] http://www.whoisguard.com/legal-tos.asp

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