Hackers advertise 44GB Telegram user database on data leak forum

News11 Feb 2026

More than 200 million records tied to users of Telegram, one of the world’s largest messaging platforms, have been advertised on a data leak forum, exposing email addresses, phone numbers and other personal details in a dataset totaling 44GB of uncompressed data.

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