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Introducing Dark Web Monitoring for credential leaks | Proton (proton.me)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They can only reveal metadata since they keep everything encrypted, but that was enough to track down this person's Proton recovery email address? That's disconcerting.

Trying to use a commercial privacy service to threaten election officials is definitely some dumb shit though, but I bet they could have avoided that outcome with some better opsec