On Wednesday morning, an outage prevented Snapchat users from posting to their story or sending messages for several hours until the service was restored.
According to Down Detector, the problems started at about 11:50 BST (06:50 ET), but the US video-sharing app tweeted at 15:30 BST (10:30 ET) to say the issue had been fixed.
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How to fix Snapchat’s ‘account compromised and locked’ error – password reset glitch explored!
Hundreds of Snapchat users have been taking to Twitter to discuss an error message they are receiving when trying to use the app.
The error is angering several users around the world who are unable to access their account.
Fears are also spreading that these profiles could be permanently locked, with years of Snapchat memories potentially unable to be accessed.
So, what is the error message? And how can you fix it? Let’s find out.
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