As of June 2016 , more than 150 million active users interact with one another daily via Snapchat . Others are drawn by the service 's more recent features . Those include Snapcash , a method introduced for users to send mobile payments to their friends . Given the app 's popularity , it 's no wonder online criminals have set their sights on hacking users ' Snapchat accounts . For instance , back in late 2013 , a group of hackers published Attack.Databreach a database containing the usernames and phone numbers of approximately 4.6 million Snapchat users . Nefarious individuals could have used that information to profile targets across multiple web accounts . We also ca n't forget about the security incident Attack.Phishing that occurred back in February 2016 . In that attack Attack.Phishing , someone posed as Attack.Phishing the company 's CEO and convinced a Snapchat employee to send over payroll information . The successful phish ultimately compromised Attack.Databreach dozens of employees ' identities . To be fair , a mega breach on the scale of what affected LinkedIn , Tumblr , and Yahoo has yet to strike the messaging app . But that 's not to say criminals are n't trying to find a way into people 's accounts . Hackers clearly have Snapchat in their sights , which is why users need to learn how to spot the warning signs of a hack and how they can recover their accounts if someone compromises them .