New top story on Hacker News: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction

Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
49 by filestorage | 39 comments on Hacker News.
Today Pavel Durov just announced the launch of their dedicated platform to sell/buy premium Telegram usernames. Checking that list, I've searched my channel's username and it says is coming soon: https://ift.tt/FcKIHqs Going back to my channel to make sure this username belongs to me (my channel), I've noticed that the channel was transformed into a private channel, without username! So telegram just literally stole my channel's username to sell it! Durov, what you were saying about privacy and security in Telegram? You just dropped its level yourself! P.S. check if your usernames still yours!