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Why was Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s phone hacked in 2017?
In 2018, Telegram CEO Pavel casually had lunch with President Emmanuel Macron in France. At that lunch, Macron, hoping to woo Pavel, invited him to move Telegram’s base to Paris. Hell, he even offered to make Pavel a French citizen. But Pavel wasn’t biting …