Do not use Proton mail service. Seems they deliver all customers data to government

Here are some detailed sources describing the Proton Mail vs. Phrack controversy from September 2025:

- The Intercept's investigative article (one of the most comprehensive journalistic accounts):

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

- Phrack's own article (Issue 72, which includes the original exposé on North Korean cyber-espionage and a timeline of the Proton account suspensions at the top):

https://phrack.org/issues/72/7.html (or the Markdown version: https://phrack.org/issues/72/7_md)

- A blog post analyzing the incident from redact.dev:

https://redact.dev/blog/proton-mail-journalist-suspensions-cert-alert

- Another blog-style breakdown on Substack (The Lunduke Journal):

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-phrack-north-korea-and-proton

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so what, isn't the data encrypted?

Asking the same question. If you don’t explain that bit up front when screaming they are shit, then you’re clickbait right?

Proton is a provacy larping honeypot company. Allways has been. Stay away!