Earlier this week, a group of researchers from Gibson Security published what they claim to be Snapchat API, and they revealed two κενά ασφαλείας που θα μπορούσαν να επιτρέψουν σε hackers να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση στον αριθμό τηλεφώνου και τα προσωπικά data of the owner of Snapchat. As it seems, their claims are true.
Snapchat's development team confirmed that Gibson Security had published their private API. More specifically, for the resulting safety gaps, they reported:
If someone creates a large database of phone numbers, and everyone code of the area, or any possible number in the US, could match – match Christian names to phone numbers. In the past we have implemented various measures to make it harder to do.
Snapchat's developers weren't quite so clear, and it seems that the company not too worried about potential violations. The company said, however, that it will continue to implement countermeasures to limit spam and breaches.
