In July 2014, a group of hackers, claiming to be from a group called "The 1776 Snappening Crew," began leaking Snapchat images and videos online. The hackers had obtained the content through a third-party app called "Snapchat Saver," which allowed users to save snaps without the sender's knowledge. The app had been around for some time, but the hackers had managed to obtain a large cache of saved snaps.