Telegram founder Pavel Durov has warned that Chinese authorities may have targeted the messaging app in an attempt to disrupt protestors in Hong Kong, APA reports citing Independent.
Users of Telegram experienced connectivity issues on Wednesday, which the app blamed on a powerful DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack – an event that overloads the firm’s computer servers with fake web traffic in order to immobilise it.
Mr Durov described it as a “state actor-sized DDoS” attack from IP addresses in China.
“[The attack] we experienced coincided with protests in Hong Kong,” he said on Twitter.
“This case was no exception.”
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