Crypto e-mail Service Pays $6,000 Ransom, Gets Taken Out by DDoS Anyway

"Ina blog post published Thursday, officials of Switzerland-based ProtonMail said they 'grudgingly agreed' to pay a ransom of 15 bitcoins, which at current valuations came to about $5,850. In exchange, the attackers were to halt the assault. Even after paying the sum, however, crippling attacks continued, although at the time the blog post was being written, they had subsided.The ransom payment is generating protest from critics who say it will only encourage more attacks. But as ProtonMail officials wrote, they saw the situation differently:"