Security News > 2020 > January > Russia Blocks Swiss-based ProtonMail Over Wave of Bomb Threats
Russia has blocked a second encrypted email provider, Swiss-based ProtonMail, in efforts to halt a prolonged series of anonymous bomb threats, the security service said Wednesday.
The FSB security service said Russia acted against Geneva-based ProtonMail after blocking another social network, Netherlands-based Smartmail, for the same reason last week.
"We have received reports that ProtonMail and ProtonVPN are currently partially blocked in Russia," a spokesperson for the Geneva-based provider said.
It accused the Swiss provider of failing to hand over information on email users who sent threats.
The blocking of a second foreign email provider came as Russia scrambles to stop a wave of threats that have led to more than a million people being temporarily evacuated from thousands of buildings.