Phishing attack loots more than 50,000 Snapchat accounts

More than 50,000 Snapchat users fell victim to a phishing attack last summer. Passwords were stolen, and the attackers obtained them via a website at the url klkviral.org.

Snapchat was made aware of the phishing attack by a government official in the United Kingdom. By the way, that was already in July, according to internal e-mails that The Verge has. A spokesperson for Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, confirmed that account information was stolen via phishing. Meanwhile, it warns if a link to klkviral.org is opened via Snapchat, and suspicious messages are removed.

If you open klkviral.org via Snapchat, you will see a login screen that looks official. 55,851 account details of Snapchat users were allegedly stolen. The attackers are said to have set up their activities from the Dominican Republic, but it is not known who is behind the phishing site.

Initially, the phishing attack was discovered because a device started logging into many different accounts. Shortly thereafter, Snap intervened, including resetting the passwords of the affected accounts and deleting malicious messages. In addition, Google removed the site from its search results.