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  • Messaging push notifications are a privacy attack surface, says Durov
    Cointelegraph.com - 17:57 Apr 11, 2026
    Messaging push notifications are a privacy attack surface, says DurovThe comments followed recent reports that law enforcement officials retrieved deleted Signal messages through device push notification logs. Pavel Durov, the co-founder of the Telegram messaging application, said that push notifications create a persistent, critical vulnerability to user privacy, allowing data retrieval even after messages and messaging applications that allow push notification data storage have been deleted from a device. Durov cited a recent report, originally published by 404 Media, that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to retrieve deleted messages from a Signal user by accessing device notification logs on an Apple iPhone. Durov said on Friday: Cointelegraph reached out to Signal about the FBI’s data retrieval but did not receive a response by the time of publication.  The recent reports highlight how investigators and those with sufficient technical skills can circumvent end-to-end encryption and breach user privacy by accessing metadata and other informat...