When last year, Snapchat turned down Facebook's $3 billion offer to buy the company out, it became the talk of the town and somehow it surely knows how to stay in the headlines but this time the reason behind it being in the headlines is not totally Snapchat's fault.
On late New Year's eve, an anonymous group of hackers posted up to 4.6 million Snapchat users' usernames and phone numbers accounts on a website called SnapchatDB.info, which wanted to send the company a message.
"Our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue, and also put public pressure on Snapchat to get this exploit fixed. It is understandable that tech start-ups have limited resources but security and privacy should not be a secondary goal. Security matters as much as user experience does," the hackers told The Verge.
On late New Year's eve, an anonymous group of hackers posted up to 4.6 million Snapchat users' usernames and phone numbers accounts on a website called SnapchatDB.info, which wanted to send the company a message.
"Our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue, and also put public pressure on Snapchat to get this exploit fixed. It is understandable that tech start-ups have limited resources but security and privacy should not be a secondary goal. Security matters as much as user experience does," the hackers told The Verge.











