technology Techradar 2026-07-17

US Sanctions Accidentally Break Telegram's Short Links Globally

US Treasury sanctions against a rogue VPN service inadvertently caused a global outage of Telegram's t.me short links. Millions of links were broken worldwide for nearly 19 hours.

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