Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail
LockBit takedown: Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail
Ah shoot, it'll take them a whole month to recreate replacement accounts
Interesting piece. It's a bit weirdly worded in that it suggests that the police shut the accounts when really it's Mega, Proton, Tuta who are closing the accounts. Presumably the police tell those companies which accounts are being used for illegal purposes and then those companies then close the accounts. I was a bit alarmed at first because it sounded like the authorities were closing the accounts when that's not really the case.
So the police provide the companies with addresses associated with illegal activities and the companies disable those accounts?
EDIT: This was a genuine question :p
Essentially. Police or anyone could report an account for illegal activity which is against ToS for all three of the services. From there the service would need to be able to substantiate the claim and then shut down the account. I've seen a few cases of proton accounts getting shut down. Proton can't read emails but they can read headers and if you've posted illegal activity in public using your proton email address or if law enforcement/ someone reports you for using proton for illegal activity then proton will be able to review headers to determine if you're violating ToS. Like a few years ago i think someone was using proton for ransomware, and proton was able to match the headers with emails that had been posted in public, and acct got shut down.
Unfortunately can't find that specific case but that was one example I've seen
That sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation.
Tldr you aren't recovering your data
states the LockBit .onion site, now controlled by British officials.
How does one hijack a .onion site?
Outside of controlling and rewriting the protocol: steal the keys used to generate the route or take over control of the server that hosts it
Is threcord.media down? Showing host issues on cloud fare for me.
