Proton Mail management preferred to pay ransom to hackers instead of securing its servers and network against attack. In a new blog post, Geneva-based Proton Mail informed the events that led the company to pay a ransom.
The company was facing DDoS attacks on its servers. The company paid the ransom in bitcoins to hackers. The company faced a major DDoS attack on November 3. The attack impacted Proton Mail servers for nearly 15 minutes.
Proton Mail also started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to buy equipment to mitigate DDoS attacks. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are not easy to deal with. Some of the biggest online services have faced the wrath of DDoS attacks. For the full article click here
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