Dagbladet wrote yesterday that 200,000 Snapchat images are astray after hackers claimed to have gained access to the database of an application that stores Snapchat files.
This has given them access to photos that were never intended to be stored , many of them intimate.
Snapchat has over one million Norwegian users, and a large percentage of those affected will be Norwegian.
The hackers said they are working to download the images on the open Internet and the images to be searchable.
Child porn
Datainnbruddet is itself illegal, but any distribution of sexualized images of minors, of which there are many in the database will also be affected by child pornography laws.
Half of Snapchats users are between 13 and 17 years.
In the Penal Code 204a, to review child pornography, it is stated that both having and Forward convey representations “that sexualise children”, punishable by fines or imprisonment of up to three years.
Children are defined in this section, persons who are or appear to be under 18 years of age.
This will not only hackers, but also others who are downloading the nude photos of minors from hacking, could be prosecuted for child pornography laws.
Dagbladet not know about datainnbruddet investigated by any law enforcement authority, or whether it is appropriate to investigate the case in Norway. However, most European countries have laws prohibiting the proliferation of child pornography.
Selection uploaded
The hacked database of 13 gigabytes were uploaded on 4chan, but has since been taken down. After that Dagbladet get lit contained upload thousands of images, possibly over a hundred thousand.
A selection of images was since posted on Viralpop.com, but was later taken down by the host company, which in this case is Hostgator.
Before the page was taken down must be thousands of Internet users have downloaded a variety of files, according to Business Insider.
Saving pictures
The idea behind Snapchat is to be able to send picture messages to a recipient without the recipient will be able to save the image. Image available for up to ten seconds for the receiver.
However, more applications, which Snapsave, Snapsaved and Snaphack, allows recipients a Snapchat message store images without the sender knows about this.
It will be one of these receiving applications is now hacked.
People who have sent down images on Snapchat can thus be struck even if they do not even use a receiver program, as the recipient of the image can be saved image with the help of a mottakerprgram, without the sender know it.
– Not our fault
Snapchat writes in an email to Dagbladet that they have nothing to do with the leak:
“We can confirm that Snapchats servers are broken into, and are not source of these leaks. Users of Snapchat are victims of use of a third party application that stores “snaps”, a practice we explicitly forbids our policies, because they compromise the user’s safety. We’re actively App Store (Apple) and Android Market (Android) to monitor the illegal third-party applications and has succeeded in getting many of these removed. “
According to the person of thousands who claim to stand behind hacking it Snapsave program that is causing the leak. The developer of Snapsave Georgie Casey, denies this to engadget.com.
The Business Insider writes that it may be Snapsaved program that is hacked.
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