Federal prosecutors say the 26-year-old Illinois man phished access codes from nearly 600 women in an attempt to obtain nude ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged an Illinois man with orchestrating a phishing operation that allowed him to hack the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women to steal private photos and sell them online.

Snapchat promised security fixes Thursday after hackers leaked 4.6 million phone numbers and user names from the photo-sharing app. In a blog post on the company’s site, Snapchat said the breach was ...