Snapchat to warn users about third-party apps, ask them to change their passwords

Instead of how it’s handled The Snappening mass image doxing aftermath so far – i.e., warning users that third-party apps are against its Terms of Use and trawling Google Play and the App Store to snuff them out – Snapchat will now sniff out Snapchatters using third-party apps, warn them that they’ve wandered into a scary app neighborhood, and ask them to change their passwords.

‘The Snappening’: stolen Snapchat photos site defaced, details of site owner published

Owner of TheSnappening.org photo site, Mudit Grover, took the stolen Snapchat images and the site down. But within hours, attackers identifying themselves as “Team Danny” allegedly took over the domain and published Grover’s personal details.

‘The Snappening’: Snapchat images flood the internet after SnapSaved.com hack

Hundreds of thousands of supposedly self-destructing Snapchat snaps have been apparently jimmied out of the database for SnapSaved.com, a third-party website not affiliated with Snapchat which allows users to save unopened photos from Snapchat without the sender knowing the images have been saved.