tacarat shares a report from The Next Web with the caption, “Oops”: A GitHub with the handle i5xx, believed to be from the village of Tando Bago in Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province, created a GitHub repository called Source-Snapchat. At the time of writing, the repo has been removed by GitHub following a DMCA request from Snap Inc, so we can’t take a closer look and see what it contains. That said, there are a few clues to its contents. The repository has a description of “Source Code for SnapChat,” and is written in Apple’s Objective-C programming language. This strongly suggests that the repo contained part or whole of the company’s iOS application, although there’s no way we can know for certain. It could just as easily be a minor component to the service, or a separate project from the company.
The most fascinating part of this saga is that the leak doesn’t appear to be malicious, but rather comes from a researcher who found something, but wasn’t able to communicate his findings to the company. According to several posts on a Twitter account believed to belong to i5xx, the researcher tried to contact SnapChat, but was unsuccessful. “The problem we tried to communicate with you but did not succeed In that we decided [sic] Deploy source code,” wrote i5xx. The account also threatened to re-upload the source code. “I will post it again until you reply :),” he said. A Snap spokesperson said in a statement: “An iOS update in May exposed a small amount of our source code and we were able to identify the mistake and rectify it immediately. We discovered that some of this code had been posted online and it has been subsequently removed. This did not compromise our application and had no impact on our community.” According to Motherboard, some researchers appear to be trading the data privately.
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