A file containing 774,871 lines of data on Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Telegram users was found online. reported by the Telegram channel \”Information Leaks\”.
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The database contains the following information:
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- user identifier (Telegram ID);
- phone number;
- nickname;
- first name and surname.
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Data: \”Information Leaks\”.
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According to the channel’s authors, the data were obtained by [simple_tooltip content=\’automated collection and sorting of data with certain parameters\’]parsing[/simple_tooltip] of the messenger, and they do not belong to any known Telegram database.
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Earlier in 2020, a database of about 900 MB containing information on several million Telegram users was found on a darknet forum. It contained phone numbers, nicknames and unique identifiers.
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At the time, representatives of the messenger acknowledged the existence of the database and said that such information is collected \”through abuse of the built-in contacts import feature during user registration\”. However, according to them, most of the data at the time of publication was already outdated.
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