You can help us out by avoiding the use of third-party applications.įor Dropbox, the hundreds of passwords and email addresses that were harvested also had their root in a third-party app vulnerability. We’ll continue to do our part by improving Snapchat’s security and calling on Apple and Google to take down third-party applications that access our API.
The best way to keep our community safe is a combination of security countermeasures and common sense. Snapchat has always been a fun place to share Snaps with friends. Until then, that means any application that isn’t ours but claims to offer Snapchat services violates our Terms of Use and can’t be trusted. Don’t get us wrong – we’re excited by the interest in developing for the Snapchat platform – but we’re going to take our time to get it right. That’s why we haven’t provided a public API to developers and why we prohibit access to the private API we use to provide our service. It takes time and a lot of resources to build an open and trustworthy third-party application ecosystem. When you give your login credentials to a third-party application, you’re allowing a developer, and possibly a criminal, to access your account information and send information on your behalf. Yes, that includes all of those handy Snapchat spinoff apps. Snapchat cautions its users against any third-party apps that require account login information, as these violate the app’s terms of use and put users at risk. (Notably, the Snapsave mobile app does not appear responsible.)
In the case of the Snapchat hack, a third-party site called appears to be to blame for the leak, which affected as many as 200,000 Snapchat accounts.
In the case of Snapchat, the Google Play and iOS App Store are both overrun with apps that help users save snaps. It’s worth noting that while these services remain “secure” for the time being-a fact that’s subject to change-many third-party apps and services don’t have the same resources or the same concern for securing user data.Ī third-party app is anything that plugs into software like Snapchat or Dropbox to provide additional features. This week, news broke that both Snapchat and Dropbox had been hacked-or had they? After the initial panic waned, both companies came out with formal statements claiming that they hadn’t actually been hacked at all, pinning the incident on suspicious third-party products that tie into their respective services.
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