Snapchat hacked
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 01/02/2014 04:54 PM
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Snapchat usernames and phone numbers were lifted in an attack by hackers after the company basically ignored the warnings that they were vulnerable.
Snapchat put out a memo dismissing the lack of rate-limiting as no great concern:
"Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way. Over the past year we’ve implemented various safeguards to make it more difficult to do. We recently added additional counter-measures and continue to make improvements to combat spam and abuse."
Hackers picked up the implied challenge to prove Snapchat wrong.
Snapchat put out a memo dismissing the lack of rate-limiting as no great concern:
"Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way. Over the past year we’ve implemented various safeguards to make it more difficult to do. We recently added additional counter-measures and continue to make improvements to combat spam and abuse."
Hackers picked up the implied challenge to prove Snapchat wrong.
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