How to hack someone’s SnapChat?

Snapchat is one of the most popular social networks in the world. However, users are looking for ways to secure their accounts with increasing privacy and security concerns. There are many ways that hackers can use to gain access to your account and your personal information.

What is Snapchat?

Snapchat is a social network/messenger  based on sending photos to friends temporarily. This means that you send a photo to your friend, and your friend can only see it for a few seconds (or even a second), then this photo is automatically deleted! Of course, over time and with the increase of Snapchat users, many features have been added to this popular service. However, it still retains its originality, which is the act of sending images that will be destroyed soon, and this feature is known as the most crucial feature of Snapchat. It is also not harmful to know that according to how this service works, most of its users are teenagers and so-called teens.

What is the use of Snapchat?

As we said, the main task of this application is to send photos that are automatically deleted after a few seconds. To do this, open the Snapchat application on your phone and take a selfie of yourself, for example, or take a so-called Snap. After taking the photo, you will be shown a timer that you can choose from 1 to 10 seconds; this timer means that the desired picture disappears after a few seconds, and your target audience can only see your photo in these few seconds. When you submit an image, your recipient will receive a notification that someone has sent them a Snap. When they open it, they will see your photo, which will be disappeared after a few seconds! Of course, if they are a little clever, they can take a screenshot of it and save it in the few seconds that your photo is displayed; and if they do this, Snapchat will text you and let you know that your friend took a screenshot of the image.

Of course, you should know that Snapchat is not only designed to send photos, but you can also make a lot of changes, including putting different filters on photos, writing a text on photos, putting other images and stickers on the image, and things like that. Then the image could be posted and get comments. In addition to images, you can use Snapchat to send videos to your friends as well as text. The maximum video time can be 10 seconds. On the other hand, instead of setting a timer in text messages, the procedure is such that when your recipient reads the letter and closes it, the message is deleted and is no longer displayed.

Stories and Discover capabilities in Snapchat

As we said, Snapchat has been evolved over time and from a messenger app changed to a social network. The Stories feature was created for the same reason. Every Snapchat user can put their favorite photos in the Stories section, but they should know that their friends can see these photos. You should also know that these photos will stay in this section for 24 hours and be deleted automatically after 24 hours. The Discover feature is similar to Story, except that it is only available to a handful of popular magazines and newsletters such as The Daily Mail, The Sun, Buzzfeed, Sky News, Mashable, Vice, and National Geographic, and these publications and newsletters can use this section to publish their important news or events.

Memories feature on Snapchat.

You may have put a photo, video, or text in Snapchat, and the image or text might be so personal that you like to keep it and don't want it to be deleted after a while. The Memories section is made just for that, allowing you to put photos or videos that you take and want them to be kept, which will be saved in this section to have them forever. Of course, you should know that the photos or videos that you put in this section are your own and will not be shown to anyone.

How is Snapchat hacked?

Snapchat is a private messaging application where information is temporarily shared. So many people may think that hackers will not come to Snapchat, but this is not true. Incidentally, Snapchat is one of the tempting platforms for spying and extortion. Because Snapchat does not have end-to-end encryption, it faces a lot of privacy concerns. This means that the information you share when sent to the platform's servers can be intercepted by MITM or  Man-in-the-Middle attacks. Previously, this app was hacked by several fake accounts when there was no need for authentication for user accounts. As a result, the usernames and phone numbers of millions of users of this app were recorded by hackers.

Hackers can access your personal information accidentally or through someone close to you. Let's take a look at the different ways that a hacker can use to access your personal information:

- Download spy apps

Hackers can use surveillance tools to spy on your Snapchat. This is one of the most common methods of spying on social networks. Anyone can register to use these monitoring tools by downloading and installing them on someone else's phone. The app stays anonymous and hidden on the phone and records the activities performed with that phone. The hacker can access this information remotely at any time. These apps allow hackers to view and even save your activities on Snapchat.

Parents often use monitoring apps, and with the help of these apps, they can monitor all of their child's activities on social networks. These apps allow hackers to read messages, view and save photos and videos, take screenshots, and often track the phone's location.

- Through information leaks from other apps

Because surveillance apps can record and store data they receive from Snapchat, what you delete from your phone may have already been copied by a hacker. Everything you delete on SnapChat itself will be deleted forever. When spyware is hacked on your phone, the hacker can find your password and log in directly to your account. Snapchat's method for maintaining user accounts is email verification. If the hacker has your username and access to your email, they can easily access your account by tapping the Forgot Password option.

- By use of hacking websites

Some websites claim to have tools to sign in to a Snapchat account, but this claim is often false. These websites are attractive options for hackers who do not access people's phones or passwords to access their Snapchat accounts. Most of these websites ask you for the username of the person you want to hack and claim that they do the rest. Using these websites can pose a significant security risk to you. Many of these fake websites are created to trap people, and as a result, those who want to hack someone else are hacked themselves.

- Hiring a professional hacker

Hackers can hack your Snapchat to get more information from you and then threaten and extort money from you with the information they have obtained, and someone else may also find and hire a hacker for access to your account. This is usually done through phishing. Of course, this is a difficult task, and for this reason, it is less done on Snapchat itself, but cybercriminals can use this method to access several of your other accounts. (If you use the same password to work with multiple websites, you should be concerned about these hackers, which is why it is recommended that you provide a separate password for each website).

How to prevent Snapchat from being hacked?

- Do not give your smartphone screen password to anyone. Be careful of passwords for accounts that are connected to multiple devices.

- Do not leave your smartphone alone, even if it has a screen password. In this way, no one can download and install surveillance apps on your phone or log in to your Snapchat account when you are negligent.

- To keep Snapchat secure, enter your mobile number and email when validating.

- Use a strong password for Snapchat. Your password must be a combination of letters and numbers that you did not enter in the Personal Information field; your password should be different from your username, and you should not share it with others.

- Check the Snapchat privacy settings. In this section, you can control who can view your stories, who can send you Snap, and who can see your location. This will prevent others from finding your account.

- The people you add to your contact list should be your friends. Do not add strangers to this list. Many people add someone to their Snapchat contacts as soon as they meet them. To prevent Snapchat from being hacked, if you do not trust any of your contacts, be sure to block them.

- Enable Two-factor authentication to enhance  the security of your Snapchat account  and prevent Snapchat from being hacked by people who are trying to access your account. By activating this feature, when you want to log in to your account, you must double-check to prove that it is you, so you make sure that strangers can not log in to your account.