ProtonMail Hacked

[Nemo]

Having some issues.

Nemo

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Another one bites the dust. Proton Mail is compromised. Revealed user data thus negating their mandate. Adjust accordingly.
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Proton disclosed the user?s recovery email, nothing else. The identity of the person was then revealed by Apple, as the recovery email was an Apple ID.

This does not amount to ?compromised?, no other information was or could be provided by Proton.

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[Sir John Honeybucket]

I use Proton for the simple premise of not having Yahoo and etc. scour my e-mail content and send me SPAM on my account.  If only my recovery e-mail has been compromised, I really don't see that as a major problem because to me, it's little more than a throw away address.  As for anything on line being "SECURE" , it is not.

[JohnyMac]

Just as a side note, I am using the Session app right now for secure short messages. Probably the most secure out there right now.

For email, I use Tutanota. Tutanota to Tutanota user, it is 100% secure and encrypted. For Tutanota to user without a Tutanota account, the non-Tutanota can open the msg with a predetermined and agreed on password. Boy o' boy, that was a mouthful.

Rule number one, unless you use a OTP encryption it ain't encrypted no matter what encrypted app you use. The only thing you are doing is making more work for "them". Which I am happy to do no-matter how time consuming it is.

 

[Obh]

Protonmail was NOT hacked. They gave over a recovery email address (which was an appleID, which was how the authorities got a name, from Apple) after being subpoenaed. Proton does not have access to email contents, so they cannot hand that over.