Snapchat a social networking site in the world has
announced that they have made some corrections to their systems following the
invasion by intruders recently on their application. Following the invasion ,
millions of customer information such as telephone numbers was revealed but
does not involve the content of the message sent by user. The invasion
identified by an intruder to do with loopholes in security system
vulnerabilities stemming.
Snapchat have
identified the group responsible for encroaching on his system is known as
Snapchat DB. This group has successfully
revealed 4.6 million information users from Snapchat database which it started the founder Snapchat Evan Spiegel is a first victim on the top of
the list and stopped the download after 4 days laters.
The group
behind this invasion are trusted based in the U.S. and Europe, have down loaded
all the phone numbers in internet except the last two digits. The group has
acknowledged that action be done to improve the security system for Snapchat and not intended to attack by
damaged him. Snapchat that has started to increase his popularity in the past
few years are gain they popularity especially for teenagers because it is an
application that allows users to send messages and personal files then will be
destroyed by itself after 10 seconds. This Technology that has been introduced
has resulted Facebook keen to get ownership of the company and wiling to offer as much as 3 billion, but the
purchase was rejected.
After this
event Snapchat has was requesting the
client 's to renew their phone number and promised to new changes to .Between
this changes which will be implement include the Snapchat will release the latest
version of the characteristic features of the application which require user to
verify their phone number and would
limit the number of rules of the usages.
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