Snapchat to ask users to stop using unauthorized apps

Snapchat will ask users to stop using unauthorized apps after the compromise of an app that offered to save snaps led to questions about the security of the photo and video messaging application itself. The company, whose claim to fame is that it deletes content from its own servers and the Snapchat app on mobile devicesafter it is viewed by recipients, has also warned previously that any application that isn't from the company but claims to offer Snapchat services violates its terms of use and cannot be trusted. Starting Tuesday, Snapchat will notify its userswhen it's detected that they may be using third-party apps, according to a blog post. It will ask those users to change their password and stop using unauthorized apps. "We've enjoyed some of the ways that developers have tried to make Snapchat better," the company said in the blog post. "Unfortunately, some developers build services that trick Snapchatters and compromise their accounts." Last month, Snapsaved.c om, the developer of an application that let users save snaps sent on Snapchat, said it had been hacked, after reports that images were leaked."SnapChat has not been hacked, and these images do not originate from their database," it said in a Facebook post. The breach affected 500MB of images but no personal information, according to Snapsaved.