Lavabit’ abruptly shut down for reasons linked to The Feds want to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden’s email. Edward Snowden was using the Lavabit service while holed-up in the Moscow airport. Lavabit was launched in 2004 and most recently handled service for upwards of 60,000 individuals at a rate of around 200,000 emails a day. The owner of Lavabit announced that he has been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/08/encrypted-email-service-lavabit.html