Proton Mail and Other Proton Platforms Hit by Widespread Outage, Company Says Recovery Underway
Proton confirmed a major outage affecting Mail, VPN, Calendar, Drive, Pass, SimpleLogin, Wallet, and Lumo on August 26, 2026. Services are partially recovering.
Earlier tonight, Proton’s status page confirmed major outages affecting Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, SimpleLogin, Proton Wallet, and Lumo by Proton. The outage was initially confirmed at 6:09 p.m. ET, as reports on Downdetector began to climb. Users on X also noted the issues, prompting the company to address the situation.
A status update posted at 7:37 p.m. ET says: “Our efforts to restore impacted services are now yielding results, and as a result are starting to recover for some users. Meanwhile, we are continuing recovery operations.” The company said it is monitoring the issue and will update its status page as new information becomes available or once the issues are marked as resolved.