Despite the best efforts of its datacenter and upstream provider, ProtonMail toppled over in the face of what it calls “an unprecedented level of sophistication”, as a coordinated attack exceeded 100 Gbps.Īs the scope of the attack increased, it wasn’t just the company’s datacenter that was knocked out but also the ISP it used, thereby impacting hundreds of other firms. On 4 November, a further attack was initiated at approximately 11:00. Shortly afterward, the company explained, it came under a DDoS attack which took it offline for around 15 minutes. Slightly before midnight on November 3rd, 2015, we received a blackmail email from a group of criminals who have been responsible for a string of DDOS attacks which have happened across Switzerland in the past few weeks. With the company’s main site still down, ProtonMail took to WordPress to explain the situation, saying:
Swiss-based encrypted email provider ProtonMail – developed at the CERN research facility in 2013 to withstand surveillance by the world’s increasingly inquisitive intelligence agencies – has revealed that it handed over 15 bitcoins (about $6000/£4000) to stop a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
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