# Crypto e-mail service pays $6,000 ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway - Host: [arstechnica.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/arstechnica.com/) - Saved: November 6, 2015 (2015-11-06T06:31:52Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/64acc4f16aea/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/64acc4f16aea.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) A provider of end-to-end encrypted e-mail said it paid a ransom of almost $6,000 to stop highly advanced denial-of-service attacks that knocked its networks, and the networks of some of its upstream ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/00f1ffcb5722/) (arstechnica.com, September 16, 2015) - [OS X 10.11 El Capitan](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/11c65bf64403/) (arstechnica.com, September 29, 2015) - [iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bba8a16f3a69/) (arstechnica.com, November 11, 2015) - [Samsung’s Smartcam HD Plus is like a Nest Cam that’s not shackled to the cloud](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2b4a235c65c0/) (arstechnica.com, November 27, 2015) - [Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42 | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/20f5d58cd192/) (arstechnica.com, January 2, 2016) ## Saved the same week - [Text Expander Snippets: Date and Time — MacSparky](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/280792cea1af/) (macsparky.com, November 5, 2015) - [What to do when you’ve stopped doing your weekly review (how to ensure it becomes habitual) - Part 2](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/52127c37975a/) (next-action.eu, November 5, 2015) - [The Graphic Novel](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d3b40204e168/) (itunestandc.tumblr.com, November 6, 2015) - [HipChat service issues](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/032bfbd92af8/) (blog.hipchat.com, November 6, 2015) - [Indix Launches Self-Serve Access to Product API](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c7d8beab2a83/) (prnewswire.com, November 6, 2015) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/crypto-e-mail-service-pays-6000-ransom-gets-taken-out-by-ddos-anyway/