My Telegram account is hacked! Is it possible to hack into one of the most secured messaging accounts? Contrary to popular belief, your Telegram account can be hacked! And it is nothing to do with Telegram’s encryption or security. Although it is very rare, there are reports of Telegram accounts hacked by rogue governments (think of Russia and Iran) and resourceful hackers.
How can someone hack a Telegram account
Telegram uses a very strong industry-standard encryption of all messages between the client and their servers for normal chats. For secret chats, they use end-to-end encryption between the two devices. The encryption is very strong that it is totally impossible to hack an account with today’s resources, even for government law enforcement agencies. So how can hackers and rogue governments hack into Telegram accounts?
The problem lies not with the encryption system but with the account log-in protocols. Telegram accounts are tied to their phone numbers at initial creation. You can change this phone number. Every time someone logs in to their Telegram account on a new phone, their server will send an SMS message with a login code to the registered phone number.
Now, this is the real weakness of Telegram or any other secured messaging apps that rely on SMS for phone login. This SMS is not encrypted and can be read by the phone operator. So, for example, if you are in Iran and the government knows your phone number, all they need to do is to log in to Telegram on a new phone using your phone number. When the server sends the login SMS to your number, they can intercept it at the operator. Using that number, they can then successfully log in to your Telegram account on another phone.
The SMS protocol is highly insecure. If you have necessary expertise and resources, any hacker can intercept the Telegram login SMS messages and login to your account on their phone. They will then able to read old messages and check out your contacts. Only messages they cannot read are those in the secret chat, which are end-to-end encrypted between the two devices.
Another way to hack into your account is if someone (think of your girlfriend!) has access to your phone for a short while. During that time, he or she can log in to your account on his/her phone and use the SMS sent to you to log in to your account.
How can you know if someone has hacked into your account
Depending on the activities of the hacker, you may or may not notice the security breach. However, you may notice the following:
- You are suddenly logged out from one or more of your device without apparent reason
- You see messages that are not yours
- Your profile picture or other profile information change without your intervention
- You receive long in SMS without you logging in to your account
So how can you check if someone has log in to your Telegram account?
- Open Telegram on your phone. Click Setting. Click Devices in the Settings.
- You will see all current sessions (top panel) and all active sessions (bottom panel). Check if all of these devices are yours.
- If you see any device that you do not recognize, the chance is, someone has hacked into your Telegram account.
- You can terminate a single device from the lower panel or terminate all sessions.
- After terminating the unauthorized device, please follow the below steps to prevent someone from logging into your account illegally.
How can I prevent my account from hackers
To prevent someone from hacking into your Telegram account, you should improve your Telegram Privacy and Security Settings. The most important setting to change is to set up Two-factor authentication. Telegram’s 2FA is different from other 2FAs. It is just a second step where you have to supply your password in addition to your phone number to log in to your account. So even if someone has access to your SMS code, they still could not log in to your account without knowing your password.
The second setting you should set up is to hide your telegram phone number. Instead, use your user name to let other people contact you. If a resourceful hacker or a government agency doesn’t know your phone number, it would be difficult to intercept your login SMS.
Also, whenever you are going to talk someone sensitive, try using Telegram’s secret chat feature. Using secret chat in Telegram, you can make sure only your device and your contact’s device can read the secret messages. Even if someone have a device logged in to your account, they cannot see your messages as long as you are the one who starts the secret chat.
Am blocked out of my account and I can’t log in
For me is like this I can’t open my account
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so, what can I do in order to retrieve my account back?
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A hacker called Samuel Leach posted a job on Facebook, when I shown interest he said they will call to interview me on telegram. I then received a call asking for my telegram code and I willingly gave him. He is now using my number on telegram
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I’m trying termine the session on my Telegram account in Russia but I have the message “For security reasons, you cannot end older sessions from a device you have just connected. Use a previous connection or wait a few hours” what could I do now?
There is some one open telegram account using my number, she told me to send comfimation code without knowing i sent it to her.
So please help me to delete that account.
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My telegram was hack and being use to borrow money yesterday. I tried to open saw all blank no contacts so I just unistall it. Can I check if it is still on using my account. Please recover for me to delete it permanently. I need confirmation on this. thank you. My emai is syedsagaff@gmail.con I hope for a reply. TQ
Although I have not opened my telegram account but someone opened and hacked it and made secured with password that’s why I am unable to delete or deactivate it. How could the hacker do so? How can I get rid of that? Plz suggest.
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My telegram account is hacked. Cant log in. Show different email adress. Have deleted frim my phone. My friends now get whattsapps from hacker.
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My account also hacked and hacker is using it.Other social accounts as well. He even tried to shop online with my credit card details but did not succeed.
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I lost access to my account. I can not login, it says too many attempts please try again later. I want it blocked or recovered. When i opened another account I realized it’s being used by another person.
My telegram account is being controlled by a hacker, who has deleted me from my telegram group and they are using my telegram account.
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my telegram account is hacked plisss helped me . i want to recover t but i say that they sent code to different email which is not mine. help me to recover it pleaseee. it say that the email got changed to sa(blur)8@gmail.com but it was not mine !! and i never changed my telegram email. my number +0197160293 . please help me to recover it . im a student and im a kinda broke and it my only chance to got info from school . plissss
my telegram account is used by other person. how can i backup it and my user name was Waqtol and my telephone is 0910285559
My telegram channel was hacked and I’m no longer have access to it. Can someone help me?
My name is Melese Damtie Hile, my telegram account opened by mobile number +251918302831. IGot my account hacked yesterday. Fortunately for me, the intruder did not turn the 2 step-verification, so I did it quickly after I managed to log in. I still have to wait 24 to 48 hours to be able to kick out the intruder.
The data, that they can access: telephone number, email (if was connected), any data from the chats (not from deleted though). So in my case that’s quite a lot of data, especially since I mainly used Telegram for communication with friends and relatives.
Unfortunately in my google research I have not found any way of restoring the account if the email and 2 step verification was changed by the intruder. So the account is most probably lost.
What my fault in this situation was: clicking a link I shouldn’t have opened. It is probable that I myself have allowed this to happen by verifying their login in this way. As far as I know it is not possible to hack telegram in conventional way, but it is very much possible because of human factor.
my email address yanaseme06@gmail.com