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Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
(theintercept.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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They are killing accounts for responsible disclosure? That’s fucking crazy.
I could see maybe the responsible APT attacker getting ahold of those accounts and spoofing or otherwise manufacturing TOS violations, then reporting the accounts themselves to prevent their compromised targets from fixing their systems.
Or someone at the CERT didn’t understand what was going on? And proton is fucking stupid? I don’t get why this would happen. Weird.