# @kazani: Proton Mail delivers customer data to government

Source: https://farcaster.xyz/kazani/0x3420e2f8
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/kazani-Proton-Mail-delivers-customer-data-to-government?index=0x6952be7c9c6fb6befc8fa171f5113057ec7ac0a0125b3dc541b2fba37e79a45cadca1307
Submitted by @kazani on 2025-12-29 UTC, 2 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

kazani advises against using Proton Mail, claiming the service delivers all customers' data to government. The claim itself is not explained in the text, which instead links to sources on a September 2025 controversy between Proton Mail and Phrack. Those sources include an investigative report from The Intercept on suspended journalist accounts, Phrack's Issue 72, a redact.dev blog analysis, and a Lunduke Journal Substack breakdown.

## Article

Do not use Proton mail service. Seems they deliver all customers data to government

Here are some detailed sources describing the Proton Mail vs. Phrack controversy from September 2025:

- The Intercept's investigative article (one of the most comprehensive journalistic accounts): 
 
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

- Phrack's own article (Issue 72, which includes the original exposé on North Korean cyber-espionage and a timeline of the Proton account suspensions at the top) 

https://phrack.org/issues/72/7.html

- A blog post analyzing the incident from redact. dev 

https://redact.dev/blog/proton-mail-journalist-suspensions-cert-alert

- Another blog-style breakdown on Substack (The Lunduke Journal)

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-phrack-north-korea-and-proton

## Comments

**misha**: recently started with GPG Mail Extension for MacOS https://gpgtools.com/ as a maybe Protonmail substitute. it’s awesome, but sadly almost no one uses PGP :) using the extension to my surprise i noticed Apple signs their emails! happy someone is showing the way lol. (btw Protonmail supports PGP natively)