Hong Kong based VPN company leaks data of 2 crore customers. Find out how?


Many people across the globe try to use Virtual Private Network(VPN) to keep their data safe and private so that no one can track them. In a report by VPNMentor, they have shown some serious allegations about the company. These servers are of Seven VPN companies and they left the server completely open and accessible, exposing private user data for anyone to see. This is the basic security a VPN has to offer and also put a whole sum of users at risk.

 

Mostly, all VPN brands say that their services have a no-log system which eventually means no data tracking or peeking on the respective user. But it is found that almost 2 crores or 20 million VPN users Personal Identifiable Information (PII) has been leaked over the internet where the data included internet activity logs, email addresses, payment info, clear text passwords, IP addresses, home addresses, phone models, device ID, and other technical credentials.

 

All seven VPN companies are based in Hong Kong and a total of 1.207 TB of data has been breached with 1,083,997,361 number of files being breached and over 20 million people’s data is involved in this lapse. The companies claim that due to the COVID situation and the changes in the staff, they are unable to maintain their servers.

 

The apps involved in these activities are UFO VPN, FAST VPN, FREE VPN, SUPER VPN, FLASH VPN, SECURE VPN, RABBIT VPN, almost all of these apps are developed by the same group of developers. Also, these apps are still listed in the Google Play Store so the links of these apps are given below, find if you are using the app and uninstall it immediately.

 

1.UFO VPN

2.Fast VPN

3.Free VPN

4.Super VPN

5.Flash VPN

6.Secure VPN

7.Rabbit VPN

If you really want to use a VPN, then do a well research on the app and then download it in order to maintain the security and keep your data private.

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