Snapchat to issue more secure app after hacking exposes millions of user phone …

After a breach that exposed 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers, Snapchat's security issues were laid bare.

Even as Snapchat has become the latest Internet darling, daring to reject multibillion-dollar acquisition deals, the young company has masked what some consider to be a dirty little secret: Its security may not be all that different from that of other

UPDATE: At 3:55 p.m. Pacific, Snapchat spokeswoman Mary Ritti notified CyberTruth that the company plans to release an update that will allow users to opt out of appearing in the "Find Friends" function. The company will also improve rate limiting and

SAN FRANCISCO — This new year of 2014 may very well be the one in which the ability (or failure) of social networks to protect their users' data becomes a competitive advantage (or disadvantage). If so, Snapchat has started the year off in a bad way, 

Last week security researchers published a way to skim Snapchat's full database, and it appears someone did it before the vulnerability — which,