Hackers leak data from Telegram, including accounts of over 50 thousand Uzbek citizens
A preliminary study showed a match of more than 50% of the compromised data, which indicates the relevance of the threat to the Uzbek segment of messenger users.
The data of several million users of the Telegram messenger has recently been leaked by hackers. The database has had a total of 40,640,449 contacts, of which 50,062 are contact numbers of Uzbek mobile operators, the Information Security Center of Uzbekistan reported.
The Center said that the leaked information includes personal data, such as the surname and first name specified at the time of registration in the app, phone number, nickname, as well as user IDS that are generated during registration and used by the program to identify senders and recipients of messages inside the program.
A preliminary study showed a match of more than 50% of the compromised data, which indicates the relevance of the threat to the Uzbek segment of messenger users.
What can data be used for?
All these data can be used, for example, for calling on the principle of "cold calls", calls with subsequent debiting of funds from the balance, for sending intrusive ads, as well as for other nefarious purposes, such as saving user photos (avatars) with the subsequent possibility of their unauthorized use, the center's specialists warned.
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