Nude 'Snapchat images' put online by hackers


Thousands of explicit images sent through messaging service Snapchat have been put online.


Users who had been accessing the service via a third-party app, and not the official Snapchat app, had their images intercepted.


As half of its users are aged between 13 and 17, there is concern that many of the images may be of children.


In a statement, Snapchat said their servers 'were never breached and were not the source of these leaks'.


The company added: 'Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security.


'We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.'


According to Business Insider reporter James Cook, hackers had boasted of having access to 13 gigabytes' (GB) worth of pictures that had been intercepted over a number of years.


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