Photo Leak | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:54:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Photo Leak | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Snapchat photo leak blamed on third party apps https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/jon-martindale/snapchat-photo-leak-blamed-on-third-party-apps/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/security-software/jon-martindale/snapchat-photo-leak-blamed-on-third-party-apps/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:31:11 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=216206 Late last week, the world learned that it isn't just celebrities that have been victim of a photo hacking scandal, but the public too. A large number of Snapchat users are said to have been affected, with some 100,000 images dumped online for all to see. Snapchat's statement on the matter however, places the blame at …

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Late last week, the world learned that it isn't just celebrities that have been victim of a photo hacking scandal, but the public too. A large number of Snapchat users are said to have been affected, with some 100,000 images dumped online for all to see. Snapchat's statement on the matter however, places the blame at the feet of third party applications that save the images when they are supposed to be deleted.

We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks,” the service tweeted on Friday. “Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our ToU.”

The service being typically cited by many sources as the cause of the leak, is SnapSave. SnapSave lets users sign in with their SnapChat details, in order to give them the chance to save images sent through the service – which without it, are automatically deleted by SnapChat.

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Put your tongue away ghost. Someone might see it.

The leak, while initially thought to be a potential hoax or at least padded with old, already publicly available images, has now been confirmed as legitimate. The concern now is that there are a lot of under-18 users of Snapchat, suggesting that there is a potential for the dump to contain illicit images of underage users.

However the vast majority of pictures are said to be mundane, as you would expect from an image sharing service.

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KitGuru Says: As worrying as something like this is, we need to be careful that these hacks aren't used as a springboard for legislation to clamp down on the internet. Personal security and not giving third party apps your login details is a much safer way to secure yourself online than letting the government wade in with new laws. 

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Apple investigating potential celebrity iCloud breach https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/matthew-wilson/apple-investigating-potential-celebrity-icloud-breach/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/matthew-wilson/apple-investigating-potential-celebrity-icloud-breach/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:47:05 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=209991 If you've been paying much attention to news sites or social media over the last day or two then you will have probably heard that a sizable group of celebrities had their personal photos leaked on to the Internet. How did this happen? Well there is a theory going around that it was in-fact a breach …

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If you've been paying much attention to news sites or social media over the last day or two then you will have probably heard that a sizable group of celebrities had their personal photos leaked on to the Internet.

How did this happen? Well there is a theory going around that it was in-fact a breach of Apple's iCloud service that allowed this to happen and the company has launched an investigation. Apple spokeswoman, Natalie Kerris, told Recode that Apple is “actively investigating”, adding on that the company takes “user privacy very seriously”.

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If it turns out that Apple was compromised, then the company may have to re-evaluate how it handles user information before its iPhone 6 reveal next week, as the company is due to handle even more user information in the form of its upcoming ‘Health Kit' application for iOS 8.

While an iCloud breach is possible, it's not the only theory going around. Its possible that this wasn't a hack at all and rather, just someone guessing celebrity passwords and gaining access to accounts via Apple's recovery methods.

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KitGuru Says: If this does turn out to be a problem with Apple's iCloud service and the way it protects customer data, then it couldn't have come at a worse time with the iPhone 6 reveal just around the corner. However, it is unlikely to be a problem with Apple's form of encryption. What do you guys think of this? How do you think someone managed to gain access to all of those personal photos?

Source: Recode

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