Sometime on the 28th of May, 2014, the anonymous developers of TrueCrypt mysteriously pulled the plug on their popular encryption software. They shut down the TrueCrypt.org website and redirected visitors to a simple page hosted by SourceForge, with a disturbing warning :

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.

The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.

That warning is then followed by instructions on how users may migrate from TrueCrypt to BitLocker. Right at the end is a link to TrueCrypt 7.2, the first update since TrueCrypt 7.1a was released in 2012. However, this version of TrueCrypt will only decrypt TrueCrypt containers - its encryption ability has been disabled / removed.