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Partially Censored Database From Snapchat Intrusion Released

Posted by Unknown on from the that's-what-you-get-for-trusting-people dept.

hypnosec writes "Just days after Australia-based Gibson Security disclosed two vulnerabilities in Snapchat that could allow hackers to gain access to personal data of its users, hackers managed to get their hands onto basic information of 4.6 million Snapchat users and have leaked it online, partially censored.The database dump is available on SnapchatDB and allows anyone to grab it as a SQL dump or CSV text file. ... 'This information was acquired through the recently patched Snapchat exploit and is being shared with the public to raise awareness on the issue,' reads a statement on SnapchatDB."

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  1. Torrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9419945/Snapchat_Database_CSV__amp__SQL

  2. Reasons by Spad · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard that the data was acquired through a recently patched Snapchat exploit and is being shared with the public to raise awareness on the issue,

    1. Re:Reasons by fisted · · Score: 2

      The data that was acquired through a Snapchat exploit that was recently patched and is being shared to raise awareness of the issue.

      FTFY.

      On an unrelated note, The data that was acquired through a Snapchat exploit that was recently patched and is being shared to raise awareness of the issue.

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  3. Re:Slashdotted by crutchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of Slashdot's 17 active users shut down the site.. Right..

    you're confusing slashdot with healthcare.gov

  4. reminder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    slashdot beta sucks and it is not nice to redirect people to it at random.

  5. Almost no value by Prokur · · Score: 2

    The dump contains less than 5M of users (partial ID and nickname only)
    I have registered on Snapchat 3 days ago, and my nickname is missing in this dump :(

    1. Re:Almost no value by Jaruzel · · Score: 3, Informative

      I've just scanned the CSV version - they all seem to be US users as well, either that or Snapchat has useless geographical data.

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    The Slashdot Beta needs to go. It cannot be salvaged. It's unfortunate, but all of the work and effort put toward it so far needs to be thrown out. Everything about it is bad, bad, bad!

  7. Beta is the new Mobile? by Shadyman · · Score: 2

    Maybe beta can be made the new mobile version, and then they can let us have our regular slashdot back.

  8. Avoid the random redirects by Holistic+Missile · · Score: 2

    The redirect can be avoided by setting a parameter via the URL: http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1

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  9. Interview with Hackers by hypnosec · · Score: 2

    Here is a supposed interview with the hackers. http://www.stefanvetter.com/blog/snapchatdb-interview-authors-snapchat-hack-publishing-information-4-6-mio-users