--- title: Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat description: The post discusses a potential exploit in Telegram's web client that allows an attacker to gain access to a user's account using a URL with the account's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses a potential exploit in Telegram's web client that allows an attacker to gain access to a user's account using a URL with the account's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/o2kACtsWv.png og:image:alt: Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 16 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The post discusses a potential exploit in Telegram's web client that allows an attacker to gain access to a user's account using a URL with the account's token. The post also highlights the shared session between different web clients and the difficulty in exploiting the vulnerability remotely. The author suggests a mitigation similar to QR code logins. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tvdheijden** · 1 upvotes > Interesting article, but what I find the coolest are the "screenshots". They're not screenshots at all!!! > >  --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#telegram](https://daily.dev/tags/telegram) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv"},"datePublished":"2024-05-02T02:32:24.547Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z","description":"The post discusses a potential exploit in Telegram's web client that allows an attacker to gain access to a user's account using a URL with the account's...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--P4t4XyoV--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2001","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--P4t4XyoV--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2001","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"security,telegram","timeRequired":"PT16M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/stealing-your-telegram-account-in-10-seconds-flat-o2kactswv","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Interesting article, but what I find the coolest are the “screenshots”. 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