While hackers say they have broken into a giant Snapchat database filled with Snapchat photos and videos and have been collecting files for years, the content messaging service denies it was hacked.

Users on the chat forum 4chan today have been referring to the incident as “The Snappening,” comparing it to the iCloud hack that released dozens of nude photos of celebrities to the Internet.

4chan thread

4Chan was abuzz with news around the alleged hack.

According to one published report, a third-party Snapchat client app accessed a 13GB library of photo and video files for years. Snapchat users thought the library had been deleted.

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