ProtonMail hit by mystery DDoS attack, preventing customers from accessing their secure email
End-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail is suffering from an “extremely powerful” distributed denial-of-service attack, that has knocked it offline, and stopped users from accessing their inboxes.
Switzerland-based ProtonMail has its fair share of fans amongst those who wish to keep their communications secret and secure, as its architecture is designed to never give ProtonMail any method of decrypting your messages, even if they were to receive demands from law enforcement agencies – but clearly the DDoS attack shows that not everyone is a fan.
In a blog post, ProtonMail explains that the attack began on Tuesday November 3rd, firstly flooding its IP addresses and then targeting the Swiss data centre where it houses its servers. According to the firm, the websites of several other tech companies and even some banks were also disrupted as a result of the internet attack.
