Nottinghamshire Police has seen a recent rise in accounts being compromised to extract private images and be used to blackmail victims - with young people using the photos to bully former friends
Snapchat users have been advised to update their security settings to stop hackers using private images to blackmail them. Nottinghamshire Police has seen a recent rise in accounts being compromised to extract private images which are then used to blackmail victims - with young people using the photos to bully former friends.
"In many cases, a friend has accessed the victim’s account – either by guessing the login information or because the victim has poor security. In other cases, the victim has logged into Snapchat on a friend’s device, which has then saved the login credentials."The friend has then gone on to find private images and videos in the account’s My Eyes Only feature, because the passcode was easy to guess.
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