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>The researchers said they also found evidence that the hackers took advantage of a programing interface built into Telegram to identify at least 15 million Ira
by Aoyagi 10y ago
>The researchers said they also found evidence that the hackers took advantage of a programing interface built into Telegram to identify at least 15 million Iranian phone numbers with Telegram accounts registered to them, as well as the associated user IDs.
Me thinks that's more important than someone intercepting an SMS - at least in terms specific to Telegram. Is there more information on this? What evidence is it?
- codezero 10y agoThey acknowledge this in their blog post: https://telegram.org/blog/15million-reuters https://telegram.org/blog/15million-reuters It's part of their contacts API, where you submit the numbers you have in your contacts list and they let you know which numbers already have a telegram account. They have since added rate limiting to prevent brute forcing it, but it sounds like the API itself is still available.
- Aoyagi 10y agoAh, I see, thanks.