In the last day, news has been circulating that a database of some 200,000 Snapchat photos is being leaked after a third-party app used to save people’s otherwise-disappearing pictures got hacked. While some people argue over which third-party app is responsible for the breach, and whether the whole thing is actually a hoax, Snapchat has issued a statement distancing itself from any responsibility, noting that its servers were not breached, and that the fault lies with the customers’ use of unauthorized third-party apps: “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks,” a spokesperson said in a written statement. “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.”