Hackers have reportedly breached hundreds of thousands of Snapchat photos from a third-party site. On Sunday, more than 200,000 photos of teenagers were posted online, per The Guardian.
The breach affected Snapchatters who were utilizing a site called Snapsaved.com, which allows users to send and receive Snaps from a desktop computer instead of a mobile device. Instead of deleting photos and videos immediately after they are viewed—which is the inherent function of the native Snapchat app—the site had been storing them on its server.
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