What is Image Leak content?

An image leak occurs when intimate content is exposed without the victim's direct action — through a cloud storage breach, a hacked account, a stolen device, or a platform-level security incident. The TAKE IT DOWN Act applies regardless of how content was obtained by the perpetrator.

How Telegram is required to respond

Telegram is a covered platform under the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act (47 U.S.C. 223a). Upon receiving a formally compliant Section 223a removal notice, Telegram has 48 hours to remove the identified content. Failure to comply exposes Telegram to FTC civil penalties of up to $50,000 per violation per day.

Telegram's current compliance rate for TAKE IT DOWN Act notices is 82%, with a median removal time of 18 hours. Formal legal notices consistently outperform informal platform reporting in both speed and reliability.

The removal process for Image Leak on Telegram

  1. Immediately secure all accounts — change passwords, enable two-factor authentication
  2. Upload a photo to ScanErase for biometric scanning across 2.4 billion indexed face embeddings
  3. All locations where leaked content has been posted are identified and cataloged
  4. Removal notices dispatched simultaneously to every platform with 48-hour deadlines
  5. File an IC3 report if the leak involved unauthorized computer access

After Telegram removes your content

After Telegram removes your image leak content, ScanErase takes several additional steps. We request hash-blocking so the same content cannot be re-uploaded to Telegram. We also send de-indexing requests to major search engines so that cached versions of the content no longer appear in search results. Your Evidence Locker documents the full timeline — from initial scan to confirmed removal — providing evidence for any civil or criminal proceedings you choose to pursue.

ScanErase also simultaneously sends removal notices to all other platforms where the same content appears. Content found on Telegram is typically also present on an average of 6.3 other platforms. A single scan and simultaneous notice dispatch covers all of them at the same time.