Tens of thousands of Snapchat images and videos taken by ordinary teenagers have been released online after being stored by a third party website.

Tens of thousands of Snapchat images and videos taken by ordinary teenagers have been released online after being stored by a third party website.

Despite suggestions the leak, dubbed ‘The Snappening’, might be a hoax The Daily Beast confirmed the photographs had been leaked online via viralpop.com, with the file containing the material downloaded thousands of times before the bogus website was deleted.

Snapchat claims around 50 per cent of its users are between 13 and 17 years old, meaning this latest leak potentially includes images which classed as child pornography.

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