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Over 750 women’s Snapchat nude photos traded or sold online

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Private nude and semi-nude photos from approximately 517 Snapchat accounts were stolen and later traded or sold online, exposing intimate images from over 750 women. The leak stemmed from credential theft and unauthorized account access rather than an open public database dump. The actor also used two-factor authentication to lock victims out after the theft. The result was a privacy breach that enabled further redistribution of highly sensitive images.

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Kyle Svara Snapchat account-takeover phishing campaign

Campaign
H score29 First: 24.07.2026 14:17 Last: 24.07.2026 14:17 Sources 1

How related: Between May 2020 and February 2021, he targeted more than 4,500 victims while posing as a representative of Snap Inc and using anonymized phone numbers.

About this happening: The Kyle Svara campaign used social engineering to phish Snapchat access codes from a large victim pool, enabling account takeover and the theft of intimate photos. Th...

Women whose Snapchat accounts were hit by account takeover attack linked to Kyle Svara

Incident
H score25 First: 06.02.2026 14:34 Last: 06.02.2026 14:34 Sources 1

How related: After stealing the victims' credentials, Svara accessed approximately 517 women's Snapchat accounts without permission to download nude or semi-nude photos and activated two-factor authentication to lock them out of the compromised accounts.

About this happening: Kyle Svara’s unauthorized access to Snapchat accounts exposed private photos from nearly 600 women and affected at least 59 accounts. The compromise relied on ph...

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Incident
H score28 First: 19.01.2026 18:04 Last: 19.01.2026 18:04 Sources 1

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  1. 24.07.2026 14:17 2 articles · 8h ago

    Over 750 women’s Snapchat nude photos traded or sold online

    Initial Disclosure

    Between May 2020 and February 2021, the actor used social engineering to phish Snapchat access codes and reach women's accounts. The initial exposure was the unauthorized download of intimate photos from compromised accounts before later redistribution.

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