Remind them, 'Once on the Internet, always on the Internet!' Make sure they are communicating only with people they know and that they realize the pictures they send don't just vanish forever. If your teens are using Snapchat, ask them to show you how they're using it. And as Snapchat grows in popularity, the company is moving further away from its sexting association. In fairness, many teens use Snapchat for innocent picture-conversations with each other.
While it wasn't exactly a breach of Snapchat, it's further proof that pictures don't always disappear. Also, last October, hackers got their hands on thousands of 'deleted' Snapchat images that had been stored on third-party servers.
