Snapchat Leak Underwhelms Horny Dudes Who Wanted More Nudes
"The Snappening," a leak of 200,000 private photos stolen from Snapchat users, happened as promised this weekend, allegedly with the help of the same photo collectors who leaked hundreds of celebrity nudes last month. And the early reviews from horny Redditors are in: Not enough nudes.
"13GB of low resolution garbage. Mundane, boring shit like 'check out my new hat!' or 'heehee my shoes are so silly!'" wrote one crestfallen redditor quoted by the Guardian.
"Nothing exciting. 99% is junk. Few quick masturbation vids. Deleted everything," another disappointed commenter added, because the unfortunate thing about a privacy violation that potentially affected tens of thousands of people is that it only yielded "100MB of actual nudes."
At least one Snappening site is hosting purported Snapchat nudes of celebrities including Emmy Rossum, Nikki Cox, Kelly Brook, and Shiri Appleby.
There's a silver lining, though! Sort of! "No under 18s by the looks of things," another commenter reported. Half of Snapchat's users are between 13 and 17, according to the company.
Last week, Snapchat blamed the leak on a security hole in a third-party app—later revealed to be a Snapchat web client called Snapsaved—and foisted the blame onto Snapchat users for trusting unofficial software.
"Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security," the company said in a statement.
News of the leak came from 4chan, where anonymous posters collaborated to get the hacked photos onto the web. The effort may also have involved "the same people who were behind the posting of nude celebrity photos in August," the Guardian's Charles Arthur reported.
