Last night a slew of nude pictures started showing up on 4chan. Not terribly unusual, except these were images apparently snagged from hundreds of thousands of Snapchat users. The event has been dubbed “the Snappening,” named after a previous nude photo hack called “The Fappening.” A month ago, a group of hackers found their way into several celebrity iCloud accounts, stole nude images found there, and posted them to 4chan. Most notable among the people targeted was actress Jennifer Lawrence, who called the incident a sex crime . This time, hackers took photos from 200,000 accounts, according to social media consultant and writer Kenny Withers . Snapchat has issued the following statement to VentureBeat in response, confirming that a hack has occured. But Snapchat makes clear that its “servers were never breached” and played no role in the hack [emphasis ours]: We can confirm that Snapchat’s s...