A Snapchat Hack Is Sending People Pictures of Smoothies

This happened to me about an hour ago: I started getting texts from friends asking if I had intentionally snapped them photos of smoothies festooned with the URL of a scammy website. I had not.

Honest mistake; I get weird on Snapchat. But this smoothie was not mine, and I was not trying to sell discounted supplements through a fruit-themed scamsite; my Snapchat account was hacked, and I am not alone.

According to Snapchat, this has been happening for the last couple days. “It’s mostly cases where someone has your email address and password and gets in on the first try,” says a spokesperson for Snapchat whose name disappeared three seconds after he told it to me. “We’re not seeing any evidence of brute-force tactics.”