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#Telegram fork #Nekogram has been caught collecting users' phone numbers for OSINT bots with a secret function in the official release binaries.
https://github.com/Nekogram/Nekogram/issues/336
https://github.com/RomashkaTea/nekogram-proof-of-logging
There also was a debug function in #Cherrygram, another fork, immediately removed after the news about Nekogram broke out, although the dev says it was an innocuous unused debug function, but I think it's weird that it sent your phone number to Google Firebase Analytics though.