Telegram has managed to become one of the favorite favorite IM applications for any user in any mobile operating system; largely due to that always has distinguished itself as a secure platform with message encryption returning impossible steal the information contained in this platform. Until now.
According to a story exclusive to the news agency Reuters, a group of hackers living in Iran, would have attained greater intrusion into the history of this service, to commit more than one dozen of accounts of Telegram, thereby stealing the telephone data of more than 15 million national users.
The attack happened in the course of this year, no public would have been returned by those responsible for the app, but would have affected a significant number of users in Iran, especially if one takes into account that there are just slightly more than 20 million active users in the country. So the hackers would have telephone data from almost the 75% of all.
Claudio Guarnieri, member of Amnesty International and the expert in computer security Collin Anderson were responsible for revealing this fact, after consideration by more than two years in the activities of groups of hackers in the region. Without giving further details on the matter, the key of the exploited vulnerability would reside in the use of SMS messages to activate the use of the account in new devices.
It’s a serious matter, especially to the suspicion of the involvement of the Government of Iran in these intrusions, those who have tried to take control over the use of this application and other similar ones for months.
