(RT) Millions of US and Canadian users of popular photo sharing app Snapchat had their phone numbers and usernames exposed online after the data was captured by anonymous hackers. The leak comes months after Snapchat was warned of a major security hole. The New Year may have only just started, but for Snapchat developers it has already been marked by the greatest security fail in the mobile app’s history.
An anonymous group of hackers has compiled and dumped a database containing phone number information of 4.6 million Snapchat users, along with their usernames, to a webpage simply labeled snapchatdb.info.
Although the last two digits of the leaked phone numbers have “for now” been censored out “in order to minimize spam and abuse,” the group says one should feel free to contact them and ask for the uncensored version of the database, which they agree to release “under certain circumstances.”
Moreover, the hackers suggest searching for matching Facebook and Twitter accounts to figure out the needed phone numbers on one’s own, saying that “people tend to use the same username around the web.”
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