Bangladesh, May 20 -- A newly released independent cybersecurity review has confirmed the existence of a significant privacy vulnerability in Telegram, supporting earlier findings by investigative journalists who warned that the popular messaging platform may expose users to long-term tracking by governments, internet providers, and other entities capable of monitoring network traffic.

The review, conducted by cybersecurity firm Symbolic Software and obtained by Important Stories, found that Telegrams infrastructure transmits a persistent device identifier known as an “auth_key_id” in a manner that can be observed without breaking the platforms encryption. According to the researchers, the identifier remains stable over exten...