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Snapchat Triples Video Traffic to 6 Billion Views Per Day

Snapchat is closing the gap to Facebook in terms of video views: The number of videos viewed on the popular messaging app has tripled since May to 6 billion, people familiar with the matter have told the Financial Times' Tim Bradshaw. That compares to the 8 billion daily views announced by Facebook last week during the quarterly...

4.6 Million Snapchat Usernames & Phone Numbers Leaked

A website titled SnapchatDB leaked 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and their associated phone numbers and geographical regions earlier today, Forbes is reporting. A team of anonymous hackers reportedly used a 'Snapchat API exploit' to compile the database, which was being offered as a SQL database dump (approx. 40MB) or as a CSV file, on http://www.snapchatdb.info/. The hackers, who used security...