[Glacia]

Fun fact: Recently FSB database on border crossings from 2014 to 2023 was leaked online and Durov visited Russia 50 times since 2015. In fact, he was in Russia the day the telegram was unblocked. I wonder why?

[eitland]

Care to link to the leaks?

I've heard similar stories on and off but if you post the link you'd be the first to let me know the source.

Not saying it isn't true. Only pointing out I have not seen the source yet.

[mananaysiempre]

The database itself doesn’t seem to be publically available (yet, I guess). Original reporting (in Russian):

The announcement of the leak (by Zakharov[1]) was in https://t.me/zakharovchannel/1418.

Alburov[2], former head investigative journalist at Navalny’s ACF[3], confirmed(/bragged) that the the data matched their publications in https://x.com/alburov/status/1828143239615947234.

The source for most of the news articles on Durov specifically, published in iStories[4], is https://istories.media/news/2024/08/27/pavel-durov-priezzhal....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Zakharov_(journalist)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Alburov

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Corruption_Foundation

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IStories

[Glacia]

Here is a Russian source (Use google translate): https://storage.googleapis.com/istories/news/2024/08/27/pave...

The DB was sold on darknet for huge money (200 000$+).

First person to report about this leak was this guy: https://t.me/zakharovchannel/1416?single

Multiple people so far have confirmed it's a real DB.

[protomolecule]

Rumors are that it costs 270000 USD, but apparently a couple of aggregators have bought it.