After watching Lavabit and other encrypted services of America get shutdown. I wouldn't be surprised if the group is being funded by the NSA or other government programs that hate these services for the near absolute privacy. Sure this is just a theory, but there is reason with it.
Protonmail has been under attack since its conception. Corrupt government hate the very idea of it.
If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.
This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).
This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published:
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 28.9 ms ] threadYeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203
ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s...
ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb...
TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat...
So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.