| No Need to Replace Your Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo | | | | these applications; neither are messages interim stored |
| Mail Account – But also think Opolis! | | | | in encrypted mode on – what can be described as |
| Back in October 2009 the BBC and several UK and | | | | – mediocre secure servers on an Email´s path |
| international newspapers reported on a massive | | | | from the sender to the recipient. |
| security breach: Millions of Hotmail customers were | | | | Launched in March 2010, Opolis Secure Mail and |
| advised to change their passwords, a warning which | | | | Document Messaging Service ( has taken an entirely |
| was later extended to users of Email services including | | | | different approach: Opolis is also free, but focuses |
| Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Alone in the United Kingdom up | | | | exclusively on the transmission of confidential mails and |
| to 21 million people and businesses using Hotmail | | | | documents in encrypted mode. Providing point-to-point |
| services were warned of being potentially at risk of | | | | Email security for corporate and private users, Opolis |
| being defrauded after passwords were acquired | | | | does not aim to replace Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo. As a |
| illegally. | | | | matter of fact, an Opolis user may still arrange a |
| It seemed that around 10,000 passwords were | | | | meeting for a chat over a cup of coffee or send |
| obtained by hackers. These created a fake website | | | | photos from last weekend via Gmail. However, any |
| looking like the one of Hotmail to "convince" users to | | | | confidential information, such as documents, would only |
| enter their Email address and password: A procedure | | | | be sent via Opolis. |
| also known as a 'phishing' scam. Fears immediately | | | | Opolis provides "Power to the Sender": Hence, the |
| spread that information provided by users unaware of | | | | sender has always full authority over what the |
| the scam could be used fraudulently to access Email | | | | recipient is allowed to do with a message and is |
| accounts and – de facto - steal personal | | | | empowered to monitor the entire path of a message. |
| information, such as credit card account details. | | | | For example, the sender decides whether the recipient |
| The major Email application providers were quick in | | | | may copy, print, respond to or forward a message to |
| responding: Reportedly password resets were forced | | | | another Opolis user or not. And, the sender is also able |
| by Gmail who pointed out that this issue was not amid | | | | to monitor how the recipient has further processed the |
| to a breach of Gmail security, but rather a scam | | | | received message, such as – if allowed – to |
| scheme. The other providers reacted in a similar | | | | whom it was forwarded. Finally, neither can Opolis |
| manner. | | | | messages be manipulated or falsified. |
| Email services such as provided by Hotmail, Gmail or | | | | Since its launch in March hundreds of users have |
| Yahoo have been and will be very popular going | | | | already taken advantage of its free service according |
| forward, foremost as they are easy to use and | | | | to Opolis. The Opolis mail client is running under both, |
| quickly set up, even without any further identification. - | | | | Windows as well as Apple. Several language versions, |
| Security seems an ongoing issue, though, foremost as | | | | such as English, German and Czech are already |
| messages are usually not sent in encrypted mode via | | | | available with Russian coming next. |