Hackers uncover 15m Iranian Telegram users’ phone numbers and IDs
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on August 3, 2016
at 11:36 am
A security research duo told Reuters that they’ve found evidence of encrypted messaging service Telegram’s systems being breached by hacker group Rocket Kitten. According to Collin Anderson and Claudio Guarnieri, the attackers compromised more than a dozen accounts held by political activists involved in reformist movements and opposition organizations in Iran earlier this year. They’ve also been able to find the phone numbers and user IDs associated with 15 million accounts in Iran, where roughly 20 million people use Telegram. The hack is worrying because it allows attackers to read the messages received by the accounts they’ve hacked, as well as…
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