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VPN Firm that Claims Zero Logs Policy Leaks 20 Million User Logs

posted by martyb on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:40AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

VPN firm that claims zero logs policy leaks 20 million user logs:

The VPN company in the discussion is a Hong Kong-based UFO VPN owned by Dreamfii HK Limited.

[...] Discovered by researchers from Comparitech on July 1st, 2020; the exposure occurred due to the database hosted on an Elasticsearch cluster being left without any password.

[...] Worth 894 GB, the data allegedly included plaintext passwords, IP addresses, timestamps of user connections, session tokens, information of the device, and OS being used along with geographical information in the form of tags.

[...] This, as Comparitech has rightly pointed out, goes against the service provider's privacy policy and the promises of a zero log policy it has communicated to its users:

UFO VPN does not collect, monitor, or log any traffic or use of its Virtual Private Network service, under any circumstances, on any platform.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:39AM (6 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:39AM (#1023234) Journal

    Yes, you can. I use PIA, which seems to have bought out by an Israeli intelligence agency. Since I'm not anti-Semitic, I don't have much to worry about. I am somewhat anti-Zionist, but that's acceptable, since even some Jews are anti-Zionist.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by DECbot on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:52AM (1 child)

    by DECbot (832) on Saturday July 18 2020, @03:52AM (#1023238) Journal

    I use PIA, which seems to have bought out by an Israeli intelligence agency. Since I'm not anti-Semitic, I don't have much to worry about. I am somewhat anti-Zionist, but that's acceptable, since even some Jews are anti-Zionist.

    I urge you to think critically about that. I have a strong suspicion that the Jews in Israel are more likely to be Zionist and even moreso the ones in the government tasked to monitor communications and liaison with Western governments.

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:51AM (#1023253)

      They don't need him ideologically aligned as long as he's useful in pushing their larger agenda, which is more easily pursued through the rightwing arm of US politics.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:03AM (#1023243)

    Bluepilled and not even remotely based.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/e0kq68/longtime_pia_user_here_run_dont_walk_away_from/ [reddit.com]

  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday July 18 2020, @07:55AM

    by sjames (2882) on Saturday July 18 2020, @07:55AM (#1023289) Journal

    I'm not so sure. A Hong Kong VPN is a bit more likely to leak your data, but is less likely to 'leak' your data to U.S. copyright trolls or DEA in a form they could use against you.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @10:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @10:47AM (#1023321)

    Jews are allowed to be anti-zionist. You goyim will do as your betters tell you.