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Snapchat, feeling the heat, will let users opt out of compromised feature

2014-01-03 13:45:07| InfoWorld: Top News

Snapchat, reeling from a recent hack that exposed millions of user names and partially redacted phone numbers of its members, will now let users back out of the feature that hackers abused. The company also said it would improve some mechanisms, including a tool known as "rate limiting," to combat future attempts to abuse its service.

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