UPDATE, Oct. 15, 8:39 a.m.: A few hours after this story was published, Mudit Grover admitted being the administrator of TheSnappening.org, and shut down the site.

"The content is publicly available everywhere on the Internet." Grover told Mashable. "Neither I am the only one nor the first one to make a website about that. My purpose was that people should see how vulnerable hosting private information on cloud can be, I do not intend anything wrong."

TheSnappening.org website, once a collection of private and sometimes intimate Snapchat pictures, now only displays a simple message. "The website has been shut down for good intentions. Thank you."

Original Post:

When word first surfaced that about 98,000 hacked Snapchat pictures and videos had been published online, the collection was not easy to access. But a website gaining traction on Reddit — and the teenager behind it — is making the photos and videos easier to view, though they are still presented as a disorganized dump.

The photos, which were likely obtained from a third-party Snapchat service called SnapSaved.com, were posted not only on The Pirate Bay on Sunday, but also on TheSnappening.org. The latter doesn't require downloading a 13GB torrent, as The Pirate Bay does.

But the site, which was registered on Friday, has been getting 5 million page views per day since then, with 10,000 visitors "at any given time," according to its alleged creator, a Redditor nicknamed massguru. Massguru is also the moderator of a subreddit dedicated to "The Fappening," the mass hacking of nude celeb photos last month.

The collection of Snapchat photos and videos likely includes child pornography, based on the network's teen-skewed demographic.

The timestamp on one of massguru's Reddit posts about "The Snappening" on Friday matches the day the website was created, according to its domain data. The site's WhoIs data doesn't list the name of the site's creator.

Then, on Tuesday, massguru bragged about the site's traffic.

The overload is making it hard to keep the website online, according to a disclaimer posted on the site, which is why the administrator is encouraging visitors to send in Bitcoin donations. No one seems to have contributed so far, according to Blockchain.info.

Who's behind it?

One of massguru's earlier Reddit posts, dated June 23, 2014, links to a YouTube video posted by a user named Mudit Grover.

The YouTube "about" page for Grover doesn't link to any other online profiles, but a quick Google search for that name leads to a Twitter account, a Facebook profile, and a personal website. According to these social profiles, Grover is a 19-year-old male who lives in Jaipur, India.

His Facebook and Twitter profile pictures closely resembled the one on Grover's YouTube page, suggesting the Mudit Grover behind these three accounts is one and the same. (Another Facebook profile, which has many matching details, has not been active since 2011.)

Another clue linking massguru on Reddit and Mudit Grover can be found in an interest in race cars.

"You most [sic] be wondering how I entertain myself. I do that through the computer itself," Grover's personal site reads. "I have a special attraction towards all types of cars and I keep surfing regarding cars whenever I get time."

On Oct. 5, massguru posted on Reddit that he changed his Facebook cover photo to support Jules Bianchi, the Formula One pilot who suffered a severe head injury during a Grand Prix race last week.

This is the very photo that graces the top of Grover's Facebook page, which we linked to above.

Another damning piece of evidence comes from a Google search for "Mudit Grover and massguru." This leads to a site called CoinRocks.com that lists five Bitcoin wallet IDs and their purported owners, one of which suggests a link between the two users. CoinRocks.com appears to be a registration log of IP addresses.

An ID that appears on TheSnappening.org is registered to a "massguru" email address, according to CoinRocks.com. Another ID, which is registered to a "muditgrover" email address (the email address displayed on Grover's older Facebook profile). Both IDs have the same exact IP address.

Massguru did not respond to Mashable's private message on Reddit, and the user reached on his "muditgrover" email address claimed he was not the owner of TheSnappening.org.

Minutes after denying involvement to Mashable in email on Tuesday, however, massguru's Reddit posts began disappearing.

"No this is not me," Grover wrote in the email. "I have no relation with the website you have mentioned above."

This story was updated to redact some of Mudit Grover's personal information.