Snapchat is famous for deleting messages, but unfortunately nothing is permanent in this world when you want it to be. The company revealed that the identities of a large number of its former and current employees were compromised in a cyberattack this month.
“Last Friday, Snapchat’s payroll department received a phishing email scam in which the scammer posed as the CEO and requested employees’ payroll information,” the company explained in a blog post. “Unfortunately, the phishing email was not identified as a scam and payroll information of current and former employees was exposed!”
Snapchat has faced hacking problems before. About 200,000 user photos were leaked from the service in 2014 when third-party apps were hacked, but in that case the circumstances and results were different. This time Snapchat said that no user data was affected and has taken responsibility for the issue (the previous time the company had stated that users who lost data were also at fault because they were using unofficial accounts and then banned third-party access to the platform in the name of security.)
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Snapchat didn't provide much information about what the attackers had access to this time, but the payroll information could include salary information, social security numbers, bank details, addresses, emails and other personal information that could cause headaches for those affected in the wrong hands.
The company reported the crime to the FBI and offered those affected 2 years of identity theft protection and monitoring for free.
Corporate hacking and information theft has been in the spotlight many times in recent years. The Sony hack is one of the most well-known examples, an unprecedented attack!
Snapchat said it was incredibly sorry for the attack in question and vowed to step up its already rigorous training programs around privacy and security in the hopes of preventing future incidents like this.
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