{"id":45961,"date":"2021-07-12T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45961"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:55:31","slug":"telegram-user-data-from-russia-ukraine-and-belarus-exposed-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/telegram-user-data-from-russia-ukraine-and-belarus-exposed-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram user data from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus exposed online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A file containing 774,871 lines of data on Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Telegram users was found online. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/dataleak\/2272\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener\\\">reported<\/a> by the Telegram channel \\&#8221;Information Leaks\\&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>The database contains the following information:<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<ul>\\n<\/p>\n<li>user identifier (Telegram ID);<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<li>phone number;<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<li>nickname;<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<li>first name and surname.<\/li>\n<p>\\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<div id=\\\"attachment_142257\\\" style=\\\"width: 1002px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignnone\\\"><img loading=\\\"lazy\\\" decoding=\\\"async\\\" aria-describedby=\\\"caption-attachment-142257\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-142257\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-07-12-20.06.57.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Telegram user data from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus exposed online\\\" width=\\\"992\\\" height=\\\"813\\\" srcset=\\\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-07-12-20.06.57.jpg 992w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-07-12-20.06.57-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-07-12-20.06.57-768x629.jpg 768w\\\" sizes=\\\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\\\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\\\"caption-attachment-142257\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\">Data: \\&#8221;Information Leaks\\&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the channel&#8217;s authors, the data were obtained by [simple_tooltip content=\\&#8217;automated collection and sorting of data with certain parameters\\&#8217;]parsing[\/simple_tooltip] of the messenger, and they do not belong to any known Telegram database.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>At the time, representatives of the messenger acknowledged the existence of the database and said that such information is collected \\&#8221;through abuse of the built-in contacts import feature during user registration\\&#8221;. However, according to them, most of the data at the time of publication was already outdated.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A file containing 774,871 lines of data on Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Telegram users was found online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1188,1829,723],"class_list":["post-45961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-data-breach","tag-database","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"42","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45963,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45961\/revisions\/45963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}