Crypto e-mail service pays $6,000 ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway

A provider of end-to-end encrypted e-mail said it paid a ransom of almost $6,000 to stop highly advanced denial-of-service attacks that knocked its networks, and the networks of some of its upstream providers, offline. In a blog post published Thursday, officials of Switzerland-based ProtonMail said they "grudgingly agreed" to pay 15 bitcoins, which at current valuations came to about $5,850, to the attackers in exchange for them halting the assault.
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