In a Twitter post on Thursday, the company's founder, Pavel Durov, indicated that the attack was likely initiated by China's government. Mr. Durov said that the attack's scale was consistent with a state actor, that much of the traffic came from within China, and that it matched a pattern of attacks on Telegram that have coincided with protests in Hong Kong.
UPavel Durov umsunguli wale nkampani, uveze kuTwitter ngoLwesine ukuthi lokhu kuhlasela cishe kuqalwe uhulumeni waseChina. UMnz. Durov uthe ubukhulu balokhu kuhlasela bufana ne-state actor, wathi okuningi kwakho kuvela khona ngaphakathi eChina, wathi futhi kufuze ukuhlaselwa kweTelegram okwenzeke ngasikhathi sinye nemibhikisho yaseHong Kong.