We spoke with a developer, Alex Forbes-Reed, who says he had no trouble recently reverse-engineering Snapchat’s API for his own application, and he suspects it was easy for engineers at ...

The API allows ads on Snapchat to be sold automatically by software. This is incredibly valuable for advertisers, as 41% of all 18 to 34 year olds in the US are reached by Snapchat each day, ...

A second issue identified by the Gibson Security researchers stems from Snapchat’s lax registration requirements, which could allow attackers to register new accounts in bulk through the API.

According to a "Snapchat Security Advisory" published by Australian researchers, Snapchat names, aliases and phone numbers can be discovered and harvested via the Snapchat Android and iOS API ...

A security advisory published by Australian researchers claims that Snapchat names, aliases, and phone numbers can be discovered and harvested via the Snapchat Android and iOS API -- even if the ...

Snapchat says around 20% of its advertisers are already using goal-based bidding and that it has helped them achieve up to 40% efficiencies in cost-per-swipe and increased ad view time (although ...

The resulting data could be sold, or used for scamming and stalking. Gibson Security has documented the Snapchat API quite nicely. Maybe we'll now see some new, interesting Snapchat client apps ...

Snap is opening its Marketing API for all developers to use, the company announced today. Snapchat first opened its API to a limited number of advertisers back in 2016, enabling third-party ...

Snapchat has decided to ask users to stop using unauthorized third-party apps, after the compromise of an app that offered to save snaps led to questions about the security of the photo and video ...

Anonymous hackers have claimed to use the reported Snapchat API exploit to compile a database of 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and their associated phone numbers and geographical regions.

Snapchat Inc. is reported to be holding discussions with various advertising agencies about building an API for its popular messenger app.If it did so, it would be the first time Snapchat has move ...

A security hole in popular photo messaging service Snapchat could allow attackers to find the phone numbers of many users in a short period of time, according to Gibson Security, ...