Telegram suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that it suffered on Wednesday. CEO Pavel Durov said the traffic overload was mainly emanating from Chinese IP addresses. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Hong Kong in the last few days opposing Beijing s plan to allow extraditions from the city. Taking Telegram offline would theoretically place a roadblock in front of the protesters, he said. Telegram and a similar service, FireChat, are top-trending apps in Hong Kong’s Apple store.
Source: https://threatpost.com/telegram-ceo-china-ddos-attack/145654/