# Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

Source: https://www.404media.co/telegram-hands-u-s-authorities-data-on-thousands-of-users
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Telegram-Hands-US-Authorities-Data-on-Thousands-of-Users?index=0x677c4a8d9a6f58abdfed1e3579c02d07e809285973fac96a4a941b250ef4cbd997e07de3
Submitted by misha on 2025-01-06 UTC, 2 upvotes, 3 comments

## Summary

Telegram provided U.S. authorities with data on 2,253 users in 2024, according to newly released data from the company. The number of fulfilled requests rose sharply after French authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in August, partly over the company's unwillingness to provide user data in a child abuse investigation. Telegram's Transparency Reports bot told 404 Media that it fulfilled 14 requests for IP addresses and/or phone numbers from the United States between January 1 and September 30, 2024, affecting 108 users. For the full year, it fulfilled 900 such requests, meaning the number rose sharply between October and December.

## Article

Telegram, the popular social network and messaging application which has also become a hotbed for all sorts of serious criminal activity, provided U.S. authorities with data on more than 2,200 users last year, according to newly released data from Telegram.

The news shows a massive spike in the number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram after French authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in August, in part because of the company’s unwillingness to provide user data in a child abuse investigation. Between January 1 and September 30, 2024, Telegram fulfilled 14 requests “for IP addresses and/or phone numbers” from the United States, which affected a total of 108 users, according to Telegram’s Transparency Reports bot. But for the entire year of 2024, it fulfilled 900 requests from the U.S. affecting a total of 2,253 users, meaning that the number of fulfilled requests skyrocketed between October and December, according to the newly released data.

“Fulfilled requests from the United States of America for IP address and/or phone number: 900,” Telegram’s Transparency Reports bot said when prompted for the latest report by 404 Media. “Affected users: 2253,” it added.

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## Comments

**macbudkowski.eth**: Wondering how many of them are crypto users. Among my friends the only Telegram users are people who work in crypto or people who follow the Ukrainian/Gaza war footages

**misha**: I guess there’s a whole world out there. I think there quite some users also in Russia and Ukraine actually. But anyone that has been paying attention lately, folks who want to have a more private conversation should ditch Telegram asap and start using Signal.

**@scirock**: I have been raging about the non encrypted fake privacy on tg for years. Even after them handing over data to France I did not see any change in the support of tg by anyone in crypto