>We are offering it back to Protonmail for a small fee, if they decline then we will publish or sell user data to the world. That doesn't make sense. Why are t

>We are offering it back to Protonmail for a small fee, if they decline then we will publish or sell user data to the world. That doesn't make sense. Why are they posting this if they are hoping for some successful extortion? How would extortion even make sense in the first place? You can't return data.