Snapchat Hacked…. Should You Be Worried?

If you use the popular photo sharing site Snapchat, you need to pay attention to this. A website titled SnapchatDB (which is now offline) leaked 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and their associated phone numbers and geographical regions earlier today, Forbes is reporting:

Anonymous hackers have claimed to use the reported Snapchat API exploit to compile a database of 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and their associated phone numbers and geographical regions. The site, SnapchatDB.info, offers the information as a SQL database dump (reportedly 40MB) or as a CSV file. Instructions on the pages say, “You are downloading 4.6 million users’ phone number information, along with their usernames. People tend to use the same username around the web so you can use this information to find phone number information associated with Facebook and Twitter accounts, or simply to figure out the phone numbers of people you wish to get in touch with.”

Lovely.

Snapchat has not commented on this, but this is not good. If you’re a Snapchat user, you should be worried as who knows what could happen with this info floating around. You should likely check this online tool to see if your info was part of this hack. If it was, you should consider deleting your Snapchat account here. But this won’t remove your phone number from the already circulating leaked database. Thus if you’re paranoid about that, you may want to give your mobile phone provider a call and see if they can change your number. Make sure you mention this hack as it may get done for free. Otherwise it will cost you.

In the meantime, Snapchat has some explaining to do.

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