Once you’re logged in you normally should stay logged in. Snapchat users actually don’t have to log in that often. Your account doesn’t look the same as when you last logged in? Are your settings changed or is there a new display name shown? Do you have new “friends” you don’t know? This could be an indicator that someone has fiddled with your account and gained unauthorized access. What are some of the signs that your Snapchat account might be compromised? 1. Taking all of this into consideration, you might come to the conclusion that it would be really useful to watch out for signs of a hacked account. The next incident in 2018 was no hoax: Thanks to a clever phishing scam around 55000 user accounts were compromised. In the aftermath though, this turned out to be a hoax. Mid April, an Indian group of hackers announced they had stolen data on 1.7 million users. Unfortunately, the phishing email wasn’t recognized for what it was - a scam - and payroll information about some current and former employees was disclosed externally.” – Snapchat blog article
“Last Friday, Snapchat’s payroll department was targeted by an isolated email phishing scam in which a scammer impersonated our Chief Executive Officer and asked for employee payroll information. This successful phishing attack led to several compromised employee identities. An employee was convinced to forward the payroll of Snapchat employees to this unknown person. The next incident was in February 2016 when someone was able to mimic the CEO of Snapchat. Several cyber attacks have already been successfulīy the end of 2013, a group of hackers published a database including usernames and phone numbers of about 4.6 million users. With so many users it’s no wonder that cyber criminals would like to gain access to your Snapchat account. As one of the favorite social tools, Snapchat had 191 million daily active users.
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