On 08/02/2016 03:16 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:

     Rayzer dear...  Meh!  :((((

     [1]http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/02/hackers-break-into-telegram-rev
     ealing-15-million-users-phone-numbers

     [2]https://telegram.org/blog/15million-reuters

     PS:  -  Sorry, still late!  :P

     (And if you are boring and invasive, I certainly will be late
     forever!  Give up, baby!)

     which can be intercepted by the phone company and shared with the
     hackers,

   With this:

     The researchers said they also found evidence that the hackers took
     advantage of a programing interface built into Telegram to identify
     at least 15 million Iranian phone numbers with Telegram accounts
     registered to them, as well as the associated user IDs.

   As a redundancy and elaboration of the former quote including
   Multisyllabic phrases such as "systematic de-anonymization" to muddle
   the issue, and make it appear to be another issue when it isn't.
   Apparently all they got are the phone numbers from the sms
   verification, and hackers didn't do it. The phoneco GAVE THEM the info.
   It requires complicity on the part of the utility. Which is something
   one can assume any commercial service would do if a government requests
   and under THEIR LAW (Iran in this case) claims criminal activity. The
   extraction of data they can do with that phone number It requires that
   you never set up an account with password.
   A burner smartphone, which by the way US Congress is trying to outlaw,
   circumvents. Set up a passworded account using a throwaway email. Done.
   Telegram has always cajoled people to set up an account with password
   for extra security
   Listen, as I've been repeating over an over sometimes directly,
   sometimes indirectly ... bad PERSEC/CYBERSEC screws you so much more
   often than the communications method or it's potentially compromised
   code. Probably 99% of the time but I've never crunched the numbers. NO
   ONE can hold your hand to make sure you do it right. If your life or
   freedom depend on it YOU DO IT RIGHT.
   Rr

References

   1. http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/02/hackers-break-into-telegram-revealing-15-million-users-phone-numbers
   2. https://telegram.org/blog/15million-reuters