A Swiss email firm gives the green light for hackers to hold the Web to ransom
Nov06
Today, Swiss secure email firm Protonmail paid hackers nearly $6,000 to stop them crippling its sites, reports the BBC. The site, which provides a free Web based encrypted email service was sent a threatening message demanding 15 Bitcoins in exchange for holding off on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. At first Protonmail ignored the threats, but after two attacks, the site’s owners capitulated and paid up. But, unsurprisingly, the hackers kept disrupting it, and other sites on its network. This isn’t the first time a multi-national firm has paid hackers to leave it alone. In August, hackers managed…
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