Cybersecurity
Data Breach Shows Iranians Use Chat Apps to Spy, Researchers Say
- ‘Hunting System’ contained data on 42 million chat accounts
- Information on server from users of Telegram and its imitators
Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Bob Diachenko, a security researcher in Ukraine, spends part of his days searching the internet for troves of data that aren’t secured properly, in order to patch them up so they aren’t exploited by hackers.
Last month, he came across an unsecured server storing information on 42 million messaging accounts, nearly all from Iran and tied to the chat app Telegram.