Proton incident

Proton VPN issue affecting Windows 7 users

Proton is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting Mobile and Desktop Apps, which began 5 min ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 15, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 5m
Detected by Pingoru
May 15, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC

Affected components

Mobile and Desktop Apps

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 15, 2026, 08:47 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue impacting Proton VPN desktop app users only on Windows 7. If you are affected and unable to establish a connection, setting up a manual WireGuard connection should work instead: https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations