Telegram’s data dilemma: History of breaches and shifting stance on privacy

Telegram is at the centre of a data breach yet again. In August this year, when the app’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France for alleged criminal activity on the platform and for not aiding the investigation in the case by withholding data from the team, Telegram had said that it was “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”