4.6 million telephone numbers and usernames of users Snapchat made public!

Evan Spiegel , a young CEO and co-founder of Snapchat , recently rejected a takeover bid by Facebook worth $ 3 billion , a gamble that could possibly be costly in view of the recent developments. The popularity of multi-platform application for the temporary sharing of images with others was growing, until today, the day when well- 4.6m phone numbers associated with and the same credentials to access your account have been made ​​public on the website Unofficial SnapchatDB (now suspended).

Two public documents for hours, SQL and CSV even with details on the position of the unfortunate North American users involved. The group of anonymous people involved in this ugly story thought to obscure the last two digits of the phone number, then think of leaving a demonstrative direct action to "show" what can be insecure servers and software Snapchat, at least this is the first thing we thought of. However, for those who wanted the uncensored version, you could contact the proponents of the transaction and receive it via email .

Just maybe matter if someone enters our account Snapchat, but make public the login credentials creates a number of problems with unforeseeable effects chain, the network exists in fact the "tendency to always use the same username and password for the recordings" , as pointed out by the same SnapchatDB. For those who downloaded the file with all this information sensitive enough to associate user and the phone number on Facebook or Twotter to get the contact of this person, or even worse, get into these other private spaces.

The damage can not be quantified , the data revealed virtually almost all the available ones in Snapchat, enough to create panic in the life Digital. 4.6 million Americans. Fortunately, the leaked database is incomplete, a Reddit user has associated with a piece of code with the areas where the telephone is concerned, are in fact involved only those in North America with postal code between 76 and 322 ( the full list ).

The story seemed announced in recent weeks had exploded a critical Snapchat move from  Gibson Security , company research has found that the dangerous holes in the safety net of Snapchat, solved according to the guys atArs Technica thanks to a few lines of code. For some time, therefore, there is a serious security problem of which everyone was aware, Gibson Security was able to publish the private APIs  used on Snapchat and has even claimed to be able to get hold of phone numbers from 10,000 in just seven minutes. On December 27, Snapchat has officially responded with a post on his blog , reassuring all that had been taken to respond to criticism over the network, not enough given the chasm that opened in the last 24 hours.

A story that will cost very dear to startups, perhaps Evan Spiegel will dream this night the $ 3 billion offered by Facebook a few months ago!