Theoretically, if someone were able to upload a huge set of phone numbers, like every number in an area code, or every possible number in the U.S., they could create a database of the results and match usernames to phone numbers that way.Īdding that they had various “safeguards” in place to make it difficult to do that. Snapchat dismissed the report, responding that, Just before Christmas the Australian based Gibson Security published a report highlighting two exploits in the Snapchat API claiming that hackers could easily gain access to users’ personal data. While the site crumbled quickly under the weight of so many people trying to get to the leaked data-and has now been suspended-there isn’t really such a thing as putting the genie back in the bottle on the Internet.

Users are predominately located in New York, San Francisco and the surrounding greater New York and Bay Areas. Meanwhile, Valleywag confirmed that Snapchat turned down more than $3 billion of Facebook’s money when the social network behemoth tried to acquire the messaging app last year.The number of Snapchat users by geographic location. Together with companies such as WhatsApp, which did agree to a Facebook acquisition, the startup is part of a widespread effort to extend the quick simplicity of messaging into countless new markets.Īs reported by Techcrunch and Business Insider, Snapchat has secretly purchased a number of startups, including a QR code scanning and iBeacon outfit called, whose technologies could be used to identify, purchase, and promote physical products, and a wearable company called Vergence Labs, whose technology is reminiscent of Google's Glass smart eyewear. Having turned down an acquisition offer from Facebook, Snapchat is looking beyond basic messaging, eyeing everything from shopping to wearables computers. Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton is a Snapchat board member, so when the hack exposed his email inbox, it provided a decent-sized window into the recent history of the company. The raw ambitions of red-hot messaging startup Snapchat are out of the bag, thanks to the Sony Pictures hack.

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