As previously reported, 200,0000 private photos and videos sent using the SnapChat application and archived using the unofficial (and now defunct) SnapSaved.com site leaked onto the web last week.

The 12.6 GB archive of the so-called Snappening leak was later made available for all and sundry to download via BitTorrent.

But the actual leak only consists of a handful of videos, very few of which contain compromising material, according to Andrew Conway, a security researcher at messaging security firm Cloudmark.

The collection available on BitTorrent does contain leaked SnapChat images and movies. Yet these are mostly innocuous junk, rather than the sort of sensitive material leaked through the recent nude celeb iCloud leaks with which the SnapChat privacy flap was initially compared, as Conway explains in a blog post.

There is a fair amount of hype about the seriousness of the leak. I examined a sample of these, which I have since deleted.

The vast majority of them do not contain nudity. Many are just a text message on a black background, or photos of people pulling faces or showing their day to day activities. Of those that do contain nudity, most do not show a face.

There were no photos in the sample I examined featuring nudes of obviously under age subjects. MORE @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/14/snappening_leak_mostly_junk/?mt=1413290704616