SNAPCHAT: THE CODE OF THE APPLICATION HAS BEEN RELEASED

Snap.inc, the person who owns this Snapchat program took action following the internet renewal of its source code. The code was leaked digitally by a user claiming to be arriving from Pakistan. The downloaded the code on the Github development platform.


The social media has backed this request to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), a law which was created for the security of intellectual property. Several DMCA notifications are registered weekly to reduce the quantity of material and internet links available.

The majority of these questions target unauthorized or illegal sharing, like that filed by Snapchat.

Complete removal of the deposit by Github

In shared with all of DMCA's apparently valid claims, Github responded to Snapchat's request by deleting the repository question. The site does not revive it unless a valid conventional request is filed by its owner, but at this point it appears unlikely.

However, it might be that this issue appeared as a consequence of Snpachat's own mistake. Following an upgrade on the application in May, the platform would have unintentionally leaked a part of the code. Although the service quickly remedied this leak, it seemed that some could still benefit.

No concrete Information Regarding the usurper

We do not know how the user Github could get the source code of snapchat windows. No details were given in the complaint issued with the enterprise to understand how this usurper didn't reach his ends. What's clear is that the user, recorded on Github as"i5xx," generated the repository with the aim of downloading the code since nothing else was uploaded into the accounts before and afterwards.

Nothing else is known about this i5xx and as much as Snapchat knows, the only information that the company has about that source code is its own Github name along with the URL of its website.

This really isn't the first time a top company has its source code revealed on Github. In February 2018it was reported that Apple had filed a notice of withdrawal in the site in answer to unauthorized downloading of source code by a vital part of this iPhone operating system.