Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers

[wraggster]

beaverdownunder writes with an extract from The Guardian, based on a security diclosure from Gibson Security (http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/):"Snapchat users' phone numbers may be exposed to hackers due to an unresolved security vulnerability, according to a new report released by a group of Australian hackers. Snapchat is a social media program that allows users to send pictures to each other that disappear within 10 seconds. Users can create profiles with detailed personal information and add friends that can view the photos a user shares. But Gibson Security, a group of anonymous hackers from Australia, has published a new report with detailed coding that they say shows how a vulnerability can be exploited to reveal phone numbers of users (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/27/snapchat-may-be-exposed-hackers), as well as their privacy settings."Snapchat downplays the significance of the hole (http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/27/snapchat-phone-number-hack/).
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/29/006228/snapchat-users-phone-numbers-exposed-to-hackers