It’s reported that it has been hit by a major privacy flaw that lets hackers retrieve sensitive data cropped out of screenshots without the user’s knowledge. This flaw is quite similar to aCropalypse, which has recently affected Google Pixel’s screenshot tool.
As it happens, when you are editing a screenshot you’ve taken using the tool and overwrite the original image by saving the newly edited image under the same name as the original file, the Snipping Tool apparently doesn’t get rid of the image’s original information from the file.
While it might not be as obvious to any user, the cropped-out details are still part of the newly edited screenshot as spotted by Chris Blume, a Software engineer on Twitter.
The user’s findings indicate that the Snipping Tool is also vulnerable to aCropalypse, meaning hackers can easily retrieve sensitive content that has been cropped out of an image using the utility.
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