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Updated: Jun 14, 2019, 09:40 AM IST

Telegram says massive cyber attack originated in China

Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed that the massive cyber attack on the encryption-based service was launched by China. In a tweet response, Durov wrote that the IP addresses originated mostly from China. He further added that all state actor-sized DDoS attack coincided in time with protests in Hong Kong. The revelation comes a day after Telegram's network experienced outage after it was flooded with overwhelming traffic.

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Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed that the massive cyber attack on the encryption-based service was launched by China. In a tweet response, Durov wrote that the IP addresses originated mostly from China. He further added that all state actor-sized DDoS attack coincided in time with protests in Hong Kong. The revelation comes a day after Telegram's network experienced outage after it was flooded with overwhelming traffic.

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