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What you do when your phone was stolen with logged in social media accounts, email and Telegram etc. here there is a solution for you if your device is lost.
My phone was stolen. What happens to Telegram account
First of all, sorry about your phone. Unfortunately, the phone number is the only way for us to identify a Telegram user at the moment. We don‘t collect additional information about you, so whoever has the number, has the account. This means, we can’t wipe your data, unless you have access to your Telegram account from at least one of your devices. Things will get better when we will have introduced additional passwords for Telegram accounts, but for now you'll need to follow the steps.
Follow Thse Steps
First you need to contact your phone service provider, so that they block your old SIM and issue a new one with your number.
If you are logged in to Telegram on any of your other devices, go to Settings — Terminate all other sessions. This will log out all other devices. If the old SIM has been blocked by this time, nobody can access your data. You can resume ordinary Telegram usage.
If you are not logged in to Telegram, wait till you receive your new SIM with the old number, log in to Telegram, then go to Settings — Terminate all other sessions.
Removing sensitive data
Normally thieves usually throw out the SIM card immediately (the phone is harder to locate this way), then they wipe the devices data or resetting and sell them, so there isn't much risk for the data in case of regular petty theft. But if you have reasons to worry about the data on the device, it is best that you wipe it remotely.
You can read more about it here: Apple iOS, Android. Unfortunately this requires you to have prepared in advance for this scenario. You can also delete your Telegram account if you are logged in on at least one of your other devices (mobile or desktop).
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Click here for commentsThis doesnt work.i cant log in to telegram in the first place because it is sending confirmation code to the old devive which i lost
ReplyWhat if I didn't log in to any device? Just only my 1(one) phone that stolen? How can I retrieve that?
ReplyTelegram you are just a big mess, you can't even provide how to log in to a previous account. You keep sending code to the phone I can access anymore. Please upgrade out of your nonsense
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