Snapchat caught my eye due to its target audience of 18-24-year-olds (although many of its users are thought to be younger). These experiments are not just about highlighting how easily it can be achieved, but also about taking the opportunity to show you the prevention methods available to help secure all your accounts. I recently looked at the top 10 free apps on the Apple App Store and decided to target one to see if I could take control of someone else’s account. But now as we slowly start to mix with people again, I thought it would be fun to test out my old tricks on unsuspecting victims – I mean friends – to see if it is still possible in well-known apps. It’s just not the same hacking your own accounts, lockdowns or not. Probably.Oh snap! This is how easy it may be for somebody to hijack your Snapchat account – all they need to do is peer over your shoulder.Īfter demonstrating in 2020 the ease with which anybody can hijack your WhatsApp, I took a hiatus in ethically hacking people’s accounts. Methinks this may be to do with the sheer volume of people downloading it?. Note to all Snapchatters: Purchased the app this morning for review and since writing this blog tonight it’s gone up to £1.49. Word is, there is also talk that an updated version of Snaphack has already been submitted to Apple – this version allows Snapchat recipients to forward the saved images to friends!. If you send something which you later regret, once the recipient opens it, via Snaphack, they can view it permanently. If you’ve ever needed a reason not to be sending embarrassing images or stuff you would not want others to see, you should consider how you are using Snapchat, now that Snaphack is kicking about.īecause you just don’t know who is using it. For it to work and Save, you need to open images or videos via the Snaphack app. I hear you say, ‘What the heck is Snaphack?’ Well for 99p here in the UK, you purchase the app and Snaphack allows you to save all photos and videos sent through Snapchat without informing the person/s who sent them.
Thank you, good people of Wikipedia, for that overview. Users set a time limit for how long the image is available for, and viola, the image is removed from the Snapchat servers.
If you’ve have been living on some distant planet and have never heard of Snapchat, that great source of all information, Wikipedia, will explain ‘It’s an app which enables users to take photos, record videos, add text and drawings and send them to a controlled list of recipients’ (Remember People, controlled being the important word here). If you are one of many waves of people (8 Million Unique Users as of May 2013, sending 350 million snaps per day) who have already jumped all over Snapchat, well you’re going to want to prick your ears up.
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