In between being blindfolded, locked in solitary confinement, and interrogated in a wheelchair while she was on a hunger strike following her late September arrest, Negin says she had a realization: Iranian officials were using her private Telegram chats, phone logs and text messages to incriminate her.“They put in front of me transcribed printouts of my phone conversations with those friends,” she said, and “questioned me on what my relationship with those people were.” Negin thinks Iranian agents hacked into her Telegram account on July 12, when she realized another IP address had accessed it.As with Negin’s case, the reactivation of Nika’s accounts raises questions about whether Iranian authorities were responsible for accessing her social media profiles, allegedly to phish other protesters or compromise her after her death.“It was more than just a messaging app before being blocked and still they managed to maintain their presence in Iran by just simply adding a proxy option in the app.” “If users don’t have access to anything because of censorship, they still have access to Telegram,” he continued.Negin, for example, said authorities “kept creating Telegram accounts using my SIM card, in order to see who I am in contact with.” In other cases, authorities could attempt to co-opt the two-factor authentication process, which is designed to provide greater security by texting or emailing a login code."