Breachesby GlyphSnapchat
Disclosed Jan 1, 20144,609,615 affectedUnverified
Usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million Snapchat users posted online
Hackers downloaded and briefly posted usernames and phone numbers for about 4.6 million Snapchat accounts, days after a security firm warned of vulnerabilities in the app.
What is known
| People affected | 4,609,615 (as reported by the organization) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Jan 1, 2014 |
| Happened | Jan 1, 2014 |
| Attack | Scraping |
| Data exposed | LocationPhone numbersNames |
| Sector | Tech · US |
| Status | Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization |
| Check your email | Have I Been Pwned |
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Notices filed
Other breaches at Snapchat
History of this record
aggregator to pressby seedSource
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Snapchat to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25572661by seedSource
unknown to scrapingby seedSource
["location","phone"] to ["location","phone","names"]by seedSource
hibp to organizationby seedSource
2014-01-02 to 2014-01-01by seedSource
In January 2014 just one week after Gibson Security detailed vulnerabilities in the service , Snapchat had 4.6 million usernames and phone number exposed. The attack involved brute force enumeration of a large number of phone numbers agains to Hackers downloaded and briefly posted usernames and phone numbers for about 4.6 million Snapchat accounts, days after a security firm warned of vulnerabilities in the app.by seedSource
empty to Usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million Snapchat users posted onlineby seedSource
First recordedby backfillSource
First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.