The photo-sharing app Snapchat offers a false sense of privacy by promising it will erase photos. In fact, numerous third-party apps like SaveSnap, SnapBox and SnapSpy offer users the ability to save ...

BOSTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - An Illinois man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to phishing the Snapchat access codes of nearly 600 women in order to hack their accounts and steal nude photos, which he kept, ...

Snapchat has incorporated a phone number opt-out feature into its mobile app in response to a recent hacking incident—the company’s latest effort to convince users that their personal information is ...

A Meadville resident and six other defendants were indicted in federal court in Erie in 2023 in a Snapchat hacking and sexting conspiracy that authorities said victimized at least 33 users of the ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...