Which Messaging Apps are Better for You?

With so many messaging apps available across mobile OS, it’s important to know which apps you should trust with your data. Many messaging, claiming that they’re free, sell your personal data to advertisers. This is not the only problem a free messaging app could have. Those apps constantly get hacked by hackers. Those hackers, such as ‘anonymous’, often sell your data to advertisers themselves or post the data online so other people can see it. Free messaging apps are not the only apps with privacy and hack problems. Many paid apps have been hacked and compromised as well. WhatsApp which was hacked last year by a Palestinian group called KDMS Team. Another popular app that have been hacked multiple times is Viber. There’s good reason to believe that the attackers are once again members of the hacker group calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army, which debuted last week when they crashed Viber’s Customer Service, published details about some of Viber’s users and Tweeted a warning to Viber users to uninstall the app.



Millions of US and Canadian users of popular photo sharing app Snap chat had their phone numbers and usernames exposed online after the data was captured by anonymous hackers. The leak comes months after Snap chat was warned of a major security hole. The New Year may have only just started, but for Snap chat developers it has already been marked by the greatest security fail in the mobile app’s history. An anonymous group of hackers has compiled and dumped a database containing phone number information of 4.6 million Snap chat users, along with their usernames, to a webpage simply labelled snapchatdb.info.

Although the last two digits of the leaked phone numbers have “for now” been censored out “in order to minimize spam and abuse,” the group says one should feel free to contact them and ask for the uncensored version of the database, which they agree to release “under certain circumstances.”
More than four-and-a-half million Snap chat usernames and phone numbers leaked online Tuesday after anonymous hackers posted the information on a website called SnapchatDB.info, the group confirmed to Mash able Wednesday.

The database of information was available for download as an SQL dump or CSV file via SnapchatDB.info, which is currently suspended. View a cached version of the site, here.
Between mobile operating systems there a many great apps you can choose . Mod Gadget has a great post showing the best messaging apps for iOS and Android phones and tablets.