Being in a security business, Protonmail has some incentive to demonstrate a capacity to repel attacks. In that sense, maybe it really is a hoax, in the sense that this is a PR stunt? The "hacker" is a staged personality?
Love the "hacker's" moral stance and then three lines later they are offering the data to the highest bidder. This sounds to me like an angry kid got hired by the competition.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 22.2 ms ] threadAnd this just seems like a smear campaign, (paying $20 per tweet to raise awareness?) rather than a researcher simply trying to get paid.
They already have a bug bounty program:
https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-bug-bounty-program/