A squadron staff snapchat unintentionally sensitive information
belonging to the company after it fell victim to a hoax e-mail, which
the company first announced on Sunday.
It revealed the company, which owns the messaging service's famous photographer, in a publication her on her blog that the employee works have received last Friday e-mail message asking for information about the salaries of its employees.
It appears that the email, which the sender claimed to be chief executive of snapchat; Evan Spiegel, appeared as if it actually coming from Spiegel, prompting the employee to send information without hesitation. But the message was "phishing message" caused a leak of private information to some of the staff.
Snapchat and confirmed that none of the internal systems has been hacked and that users' information did not touch at all.
It is noteworthy that the application of Instant photographer snapchat, which was launched in 2011 and now has more than 100 million active users per month, and says he gets more than 7 billion views per day, is very popular among youth and adolescents.
Unlike other security threats involving the spread of malicious software, or the arrival of infiltrators into computers, "fishing Letters" relies via email on what is known as "social engineering", it is just that the person someone else con that the message received is from someone who knows .
In many cases, this is done through a phone call rather than email. In both cases, the worker is surprised when a company specialized in the field of technology, such as snapchat, prey that easy.
With the phishing method, can be messages look real, and often appear to be sent from a real company or other reliable sources. Because the messages appear logical, it does not necessarily prohibit by spam filtering software.
Snapchat She informed the FBI to the scam, which exposed her, and added that she informed the staff affected by the process and provide them with insurance for theft and control identity for two years free of charge.
The announcement of this scam comes in conjunction with the start of snapchat for the first time show "stories straight" Live Stories of the Oscars, in a move believed it could pave the way to make the service available on the web to gain access to a larger number of users.
It revealed the company, which owns the messaging service's famous photographer, in a publication her on her blog that the employee works have received last Friday e-mail message asking for information about the salaries of its employees.
It appears that the email, which the sender claimed to be chief executive of snapchat; Evan Spiegel, appeared as if it actually coming from Spiegel, prompting the employee to send information without hesitation. But the message was "phishing message" caused a leak of private information to some of the staff.
Snapchat and confirmed that none of the internal systems has been hacked and that users' information did not touch at all.
It is noteworthy that the application of Instant photographer snapchat, which was launched in 2011 and now has more than 100 million active users per month, and says he gets more than 7 billion views per day, is very popular among youth and adolescents.
Unlike other security threats involving the spread of malicious software, or the arrival of infiltrators into computers, "fishing Letters" relies via email on what is known as "social engineering", it is just that the person someone else con that the message received is from someone who knows .
In many cases, this is done through a phone call rather than email. In both cases, the worker is surprised when a company specialized in the field of technology, such as snapchat, prey that easy.
With the phishing method, can be messages look real, and often appear to be sent from a real company or other reliable sources. Because the messages appear logical, it does not necessarily prohibit by spam filtering software.
Snapchat She informed the FBI to the scam, which exposed her, and added that she informed the staff affected by the process and provide them with insurance for theft and control identity for two years free of charge.
The announcement of this scam comes in conjunction with the start of snapchat for the first time show "stories straight" Live Stories of the Oscars, in a move believed it could pave the way to make the service available on the web to gain access to a larger number of users.
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