Secure Promise of Snapchat Hit By A Breach

SnapChat offers a particular kind of security with an application that allows users to send messages that are quickly deleted from the recipient’s phone. Attorneys from Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry explain how this model was compromised when a third application called SnapSaved, which “reverse engineered” the SnapChat software in way that allows users to “store images and media sent via Snapchat on SnapSaved’s website and database,” was itself hacked. The breach resulted in the leak of tens of thousands of images stored on SnapSaved. SnapChat, the authors say, is relying on its Terms of Use agreement to argue it does not bear liability related to the third party hack, and it could be on thin ice in doing so.