Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    27·
    6 months ago

    I wonder what the authorities could use the recovery email for? Did they gain access to the Protonmail through the recovery email?

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      It’s in the article ffs. The recovery email was managed by Apple, so they made a request to Apple and obtained the users real identitiy. Once they arrest the user they can gain access to all the users accounts — unless the user had specifically guarded themselves against that possibility.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Recovery email was tied to Apple, so they asked Apple to private the data they needed. No email content was shared at any point from Proton.

    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      If they could get into the recovery email, yeah, they could get into his Proton account. Also useful just for confirming the ID of the person in question.