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ProtonMail Was Immobilized by Hackers

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Hackers took down ProtonMail's server.

Hackers took down ProtonMail’s server.

One day, you wake up thinking something on the lines of “how secure is my mail?”. Realizing that you may very well be at risk to have your account accessed, you proceed into finding another solution. How about ProtonMail? Their website seems pretty straight:” secure mail with absolutely no compromise”. But it would seem that they were wrong. Lately ProtonMail was immobilized by hackers.

So what went down at ProtonMail DC? It would seem that, recently, the “secure” mail provided has reported that a handful of notorious hackers have gotten into their database. The assailants said that in order for no one to get hurt, ProtonMail must submit to them a ransom of 15 Bitcoins (that is the equivalent of 6000 American dollars). Which the company did!

After ProtonMail coughed out the money from under the counter, the hackers decided to leave them with a little going-away gift and took their servers offline for a couple of hours.

According to the reports drafted after this first encounter, it would seem that the Company is actually dealing with two factions, each of them operating individually somewhere outside of Switzerland.

When the Company was confronted about its decision to offer the sum of the money to the assailants, official spokespersons from the Company declared that their actions were prompted by the fact that they didn’t want other companies to suffer from such attacks.

But it seem that Fate was not in their favor. Shortly after paying the ransom money, the hackers came about and issued another threat. ProtonMail was to pay them an additional sum of money. If they did not comply, a second attack will be launched on Monday night.

The Company stood fast against this new threat and refused to pay up any ransom money. And so, on the next morning, the hackers put their plan into motion. During a first surgical-strike, they managed to take the dedicated served offline. Another attacks followed shortly after this one. It seem that the cyber terrorist are after the upstream connectivity server, capable of dumping roughly 100Gbps of packets an hour.

Sources from the territory report that after the second assault, many people from Germany and Switzerland were left without an internet connection.

Prompted by the ever increasing number of cyber-attacks, ProtonMail wants do to some extensive renovations in order to increase security. The renovation will cost the Company approximately 100000 dollars. The company also started a campaign against cyber

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Filed Under: Apps/Softwares Tagged With: bitcoin, Hackers, ProtonMail, ransom, Switzerland

Microsoft Accepts Bitcoin For Digital Purchases

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Microsoft announced recently that it will start accepting the cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin for some of its digital purchases. The customers can use the Bitcoins to buy products from the Microsoft online stores. The news that Microsoft accepts Bitcoin as a digital currency comes after Bill Gates talked about this issue saying that Bitcoin should be used by Microsoft because it is a key technology.

According to the payment information page on the Microsoft website, the US customers can purchase games and other digital content for Windows Phone, Windows and Xbox devices if they go online and pay with Bitcoin. The virtual currency has made a partnership with PayPal and allows some of its traders to accept cryptocurrency in exchange for digital goods from online stores.

Microsoft said that the customers can use Bitcoin in order to add money on their personal Microsoft accounts. Once they added the money to the account the Bitcoin can be used as one of the payment methods to buy products like games, apps and other digital content for Xbox Video stores, Xbox Music, Xbox Games, Windows Phone and Windows.
According to a report made by CoinDesk, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin has only been partially added to the Microsoft online stores since it does not accept the digital currency as the main payment method.

Microsoft made an official statement saying that the customers can use Bitcoin and add money to the Microsoft account only to purchase digital goods from the online stores. The customers cannot use the Bitcoin to purchase other Microsoft services and products yet.

Microsoft accepts Bitcoin as a payment method for their online stores and provided instruction on how to add Bitcoin to the user accounts. Microsoft instructs the users how to include the cryptocurrency on the desktops and smart mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

Microsoft said that most of the Bitcoin transactions will be accepted on the app stores. If customers experience any difficulties, they should wait a couple of hours for the transaction to complete before asking Microsoft for technical support. Microsoft also said that if a user ads money to their account using Bitcoin, the money cannot be refunded.

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