Court documents revealed: Telegram shares user data with the US government

Correspondence made public by the US court proves that the "Pavel Dorf" platform is now providing technical details of suspects to governments. The post court documents revealed: Telegram shares user data with the US government appeared first on Safir Arjan.

Correspondence made public by the US court proves that the "Pavel Dorf" platform is now providing technical details of suspects to governments.

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Documents from the court, which were recently filed and made public, have revealed the precise and real mechanism of the Telegram messenger in the field of handing over user data to the authorities and legal entities of the United States.

In this case, the text of Telegram's written response has been published, in which the exact data of a user account has been provided to the American judicial system. This officially sent letter contains the suspect's phone number, numeric user ID, and IP address:

For this particular case, the following information was available:

User number: +7149269705: 201155664529 [Mahmoud Almohtadi]

IP 184.186.72.239, October 8, 2025, 2:08:12

We hope this information will be useful in your research.

In the text sent, Telegram emphasized that it shared this data "voluntarily" and providing them does not mean "accepting the jurisdiction of the United States for this request or any other request and intent." On the other hand, government documents filed in the case show that the data was actually sent in response to a court order issued under the US Stored Communications Act.

The image of this letter contains an email address titled "non-public contact point" (non-public contact point) for US law enforcement requests. This email address, registered as @content-referral-u1, is now publicly available in the court's public records. This issue is important from the point of view of cyber security; Because hackers are always trying to trick tech companies by impersonating judicial authorities and using hacked government emails to extract user information without legal permission.

The case that this document is published as a part of is related to a person named "Mahmoud Amin Yaqub Al-Mohtadi" who is accused of participating in the events of October 7, 2023.

According to previous reports, Telegram has provided the information of at least 2,253 users to the American authorities until last January. However, the seriousness of this platform in response to the legal requests of judicial authorities gained a significant momentum after the arrest of Telegram CEO Paul Dorf in France in August 2024. Dorf's arrest was partially caused by Telegram's refusal to cooperate with judicial officers in child abuse cases. After that incident, Telegram went from a platform that rarely provided data to governments, to a platform that routinely engages in formal cooperation with law enforcement agencies like other messengers and big tech companies.

My professional career in the world of technology goes back almost 10 years; The path that started with hardware, continued with software, and now continues as a technology reporter in Sefir Arjan. I am Javad and more than three decades have passed and in addition to the world of technology, I love movies and cinema, classic rock music and Real Madrid.