Probably a hoax, I’ve looked a proton mail and there platform seems pretty rock solid, if it were a real hack some actual data with headers or something would have been posted, admittedly I didn’t read the pastebin but if it were my guess would be the article would have mentioned it, so it’s just someone looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
I am inclined to give them the benefit of doubt and await proof before passing judgement. They have done a few sketchy things in the past (if my memory is correct.) I am unable to recollect the specifics, but I know they were put on my mental list of, "Maybe not the best." But, I don't recall it being so glaring that it'd mean I'd not give them the benefit of doubt.
I do know that I have folks who email me with their protonmail email addresses and one of them issues with it always sending encrypted emails, and they're unable to turn it off. That could, however, be a problem with the user or a poorly designed phone app - as they use their phone to send said emails.
Personally I use Tutanota, Protonmails interface wasn’t too my liking.
LOL I use a ton of email accounts, but none of those. I use a client with encryption enabled (Thunderbird and Enigmail, so I can PGP sign and encrypt as needed.)
But, I have a public facing <uninvolved@outlook.com> (which I give to anyone and everyone).
I have a fake name, complete alias, complete with some fake online content and that is my <alias>.com address.
I have three .edu email addresses. One from Maine's university system from when I taught for those couple of years. One from MIT. One from my old prep school. They gave it to me 'cause I donate and I'm alum.
Then, I have a personal email address that's reserved only for family.
I also have various email addresses associated with all the domain names that I host - and I host the email myself in those cases.
In other words, I have a fucking ton of email addresses and they're scattered far and wide. I wrangle 'em all (those that I check regularly) with Thunderbird. It does a surprisingly good job.
And, on the subject of email clients... For a short period of my life, I was a Windows user. I have to admit, as far as I'm concerned, Outlook Express was the best email/newsgroup client - ever. Version 7.0 was the apex and Outlook Express was something that Microsoft got right.
It's the only thing I miss from the Microsoft ecosystem. Granted, I didn't use them long, but I really, really enjoyed it. I spent maybe just about a decade using Windows in the office? I'm not quite sure... I guess it'd be more like 7 or 8 years. Still, I fucking loved Outlook Express.
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