Protests have been raging in Hong Kong over a new extradition bill.
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Telegram on Wednesday announced it was experiencing connection problems as the result of a huge cyberattack on its servers.
The distributed denial-of-service attack overloaded the servers with phony requests, disrupting connection to the internet.
Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, tweeted that most of the attacking IP addresses were based in China. He said “state actor-sized” attacks had coincided with protests in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is seeing mass demonstrations over the introduction of a new extradition bill that would allow citizens to be brought to mainland China for trial.
