[telecom] A Snapchat security breach affects 4.6 million users. Did Snapchat drag its feet on a fix?

A Snapchat security breach affects 4.6 million users. Did Snapchat drag its feet on a fix?

By Brian Fung January 1, 2014

Snapchat users are waking up to troubling news: Thanks to a gap in the service's security, the phone numbers and usernames for as many as 4.6 million accounts have been downloaded by a Web site calling itself SnapchatDB.info.

The hack appears to be real, affecting at least one member of the TechCrunch editorial team and possibly Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel himself.

To see whether your account is among the compromised, you can use this basic Web site, whipped up by a couple of developers named Robbie Trencheny and Will Smidlein, that simply checks the list for your details.

SnapchatDB reportedly gained access to the Snapchat data through a vulnerability disclosed by a group of security researchers last week. In a report posted on Christmas Day, Australia-based Gibson Security explained how the app's Android and iOS API could be hacked to expose user information.

Two days later, Snapchat wrote a blog post saying it was no big deal

-- that it had put in place some obstacles to "make it more difficult to do."

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