Thousands of naked images of children have been posted online after hackers intercepted messages sent via Snapchat.
First came "The Fappening" where hackers breached Apple's online storage system iCloud and leaked hundreds of private nude photos of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and and former Dr Who Matt Smith.
Now, there is "The Snappening" - a leak of approximately 90,000 photos and 9,000 videos stolen off the mobile app Snapchat.
There were rumours that the leak was a hoax, however it has been confirmed this morning as genuine.
Hackers intercepted many of the images via a third party app before posting them on a website.
There is concern that many images are of children, as half of Snapchat users are aged between 13 and 17-years-old.
A Snapchat spokesman told Mailonline: "We can confirm that Snapchat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks.
"Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security.
"We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed."
