Telegram hit by cyber-attack, CEO points to HK protests, China

Telegram says they suffered a DDoS attack which resulted in users in many regions face connection issues.

BEIJING: Encrypted messaging service Telegram suffered a major cyber-attack that appeared to originate from China, the company’s CEO said Thursday, linking it to the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong.

Telegram announced late Wednesday that it was suffering a “powerful” Distributed Denial of Service attack, which involves a hacker overwhelming a target’s servers by making a massive number of junk requests.Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO, said the junk requests came mostly from China. “The server is busy telling the whopper lemmings they came to the wrong place – but there are so many of them that the server can’t even see you to try and take your order.”

Encrypted messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp are preferred around the world by a wide variety of people trying to avoid surveillance by authorities – from Islamic State jihadists and drug dealers to human rights activists and journalists.

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