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Snapchat dismisses concerns over exploit that may compromise user phone numbers

28

Dec

2013

Snapchat is largely dismissing claims that its built-in friend-finding feature could be used by hackers to discover users phone numbers. A security group detailed the potential exploit in August, explaining that by uploading enough phone numbers through Snapchats address-book-lookup tool, a hacker could eventually find the phone number that belonged to a person whose username they […]

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Attackers could match phone numbers to Snapchat accounts, researchers say

28

Dec

2013

A legitimate feature for finding friends on Snapchat lacks rate limiting and can be abused, a security research group claims A security hole in popular photo messaging service Snapchat could allow attackers to find the phone numbers of many users in a short period of time, according to Gibson Security, a computer security research group.

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Your phone number is at risk in latest Snapchat hack

27

Dec

2013

Snapchat now has to deal with yet another potentially large security vulnerability as Gibson Security released a new report reiterating that it is possible for hackers to obtain Snapchat users’ phone numbers. They initially revealed this hack four months ago and it went ignored by Snapchat. Now, after multiple app updates, Gibson Security says the […]

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