Following security researchers claiming a way to match Snapchat usernames with phone numbers, Snapchat has made an attempt to downplay hacking risk by adding some new counter-measures.

To make the hacking risk sound impractical and unreal, Snapchat has recently published a short statement saying that the additional counter-measures will help to improve and combat hacking, spam and abuse of user’s privacy.

Gibson security researchers had first raised this issue in August, and had also informed Snapchat on how hackers could match usernames to phone numbers and vice-versa for stalking. Earlier this week, even ZDNet published a comprehensive and thorough report on the issues raised by GibsonSec team, but Snapchat ignored both.

Snapchat claims that matching numbers and names from a huge set of database of phone numbers would be very difficult for hackers as it had already implemented various preventive measures to make the hacking process difficult. The company has not yet provided full details on how the counter-measures such as rate limiting, automated systems or bad IP blocking can prevent something suspicious when hackers are trying to match usernames and phone numbers. This vagueness could continue to keep new problems within the app from being eluded, so what Snapchat has offered isn’t particularly satisfying.

Available on both Android and iOS, Snapchat allows users to record text, drawings and videos, capture photos, and send them to a selected list of recipients. Though it correctly stresses that there are no easy ways to match numbers to names and the ability to do so is helpful for users trying to find their friends, the company’s statement is still not very compassionate towards users concerned about their privacy.

Snapchat isn’t the only app having security issues with phone numbers and names. In June, Brandon Copley had hacked 2.5 million telephone numbers from Facebook through a Graph Search application that preyed on the privacy of users who had their telephone numbers included on their Facebook profiles.