Russian experts found in the Telegram messenger vulnerability that allows you to know mobile phone number username. This was told to the newspaper “Izvestia”.
The programmers of the Centre for research on legitimacy and political protest have created the app “Kryptolan”, which uses this possibility. With its help, the police will be able to establish the identity of the caller is simply requesting information from the operator. According to experts, it negates the alleged “anonymity” Telegram. “Scriptscan” is the query name of the user Telegram, and the application generates the ID, telephone number, name and surname.
The head of the center Eugene Venediktov said: “We have analyzed the API (part of API) and found out that the messenger has a vulnerability that allows to reveal numbers of mobile users.”