Telegram has disabled the ability to delete accounts using SMS messages. Meduza reported, citing the support of the messenger.
This popular messenger is allowed to remove protected accounts without knowing the password two-factor authentication through short messages. This option was provided in case if the account owner has changed the SIM card or is it a lost password.
After several cases of interception of SMS messages to access the Telegram function disabled. Now delete accounts in this way will not work.
On July 22, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko reported that the attackers had deleted his account in the Telegram, intercepted SMS message with the code. Access to the correspondence they received. Parkhomenko uses the services of MTS mobile operator.
Pavel Durov said that vulnerabilities in the security system Telegram there, and delete the account of a journalist connected with the hacking of messages of subscribers of MTS.
At the end of April 2016 has been hacked the accounts of the opposition Oleg Kozlovsky and George Alborov. Confirmation code the attackers got through SMS. Both opposition used his services; they claim that the company at the time of the break-off message delivery to the message codes received only crackers. Durov said about the involvement in the incident of the Russian special services.
