Snapchat photos being released by the gig

[thewayne]

Snapchat is a picture message service with a difference: once viewed, the message is deleted, never to be seen again. Great for teens to sext each other, right? Wrong. Someone wanted persistence and set up a server to archive these pix. And that server got compromised. So now there are a huge number of what amounts to kiddie porn floating around the interwebs since the biggest demographic of Snapchat users are from the ages of 13 and 17.

Google Translation of original German site:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fsecurity%2F

You might have to dig down for the link to The Snappening, the Google URL seems to be linking to the top of the site.

Comments

[silveradept]

Was it someone associated with Snapchat who did the archive server? Or did the government get sloppy?