If you haven’t heard by now, 4.6 million Snapchat users had their phone numbers and usernames made available to the public just as the calendar year changed over to 2014 after the photo and video sharing service was hacked. The leak follows warnings from security researchers alerting Snapchat to such a vulnerability.
While the information that can be gathered from the leak doesn’t pose a terrible threat to users — only the username and phone number (sans the last two digits) were released on the SnapchatDB! [the site has since been suspended] site proliferating the hack — there is still reason for concern. Thankfully, a helpful site has been put together that will automatically crawl the public database and determine if a specific username is included among the millions.
Unfortunately, there is little you can do if you were included among the hack other than change your username and (more extreme, if you fear it has fallen into the wrong hands) your phone number. The hack itself was not aimed at hijacking Snapchat accounts, so if your info has already leaked your options are limited.
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