Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

This WIRED investigation by Matt Burgess reports on substantive research from AI Forensics documenting abuse on Telegram with specific data (2.8 million messages analyzed across 16 communities, 24,000+ members, 82,723 pieces of content). The reporting includes named researchers, direct quotes from both the nonprofit and Telegram's official response, and historical context showing this is part of a documented pattern across multiple platforms and countries. The tone is serious but factual rather than sensationalized—the headline matches the body's documented findings. Readers should note that while the researchers could not verify whether specific hacking tools actually function as claimed, the evidence of marketplace activity and user requests is based on analyzed message content, and Telegram's response is included, though the company's self-reported enforcement figures cannot be independently verified from this article alone.