Newly filed court records include a letter from Telegram showing what the company hands over to U.S. authorities: a specific user's phone number, internal user ID and an IP address with timestamp. The letter listed user #7149269705, phone +201155664529, and IP 184.186.72.239 at 8 Oct 2025 02:08:12, and said the data was provided voluntarily while disclaiming U.S. jurisdiction. A government filing states the disclosure responded to a court order under the Stored Communications Act. The letter also exposed Telegram's previously non-public U.S. law-enforcement contact email ([email protected]), creating risk because adversaries sometimes impersonate officials to trick platforms into handing over data.
The records emerged in a case tied to Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, accused of participating in the October 7 attacks on Israel, and illustrate a broader shift in Telegram’s behavior. After CEO Pavel Durov’s August 2024 arrest and pressure over refusing to assist a child-abuse investigation, Telegram moved from rare cooperation to routine compliance: by last January it had provided U.S. authorities data on 2,253 users. The files show Telegram now produces account identifiers and connection logs when compelled by U.S. legal processes, aligning its practices with other major tech platforms.
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