Security News > 2020 > July > 7 VPNs that leaked their logs – logs that weren’t even supposed to exist

VPNs are all the rage these days, because they're supposed to boost your privacy and stop you being tracked.

Many VPNs tell you that "They don't keep any logs at all", and therefore that they would have nothing on you that they could hand over to law enforcement even if they wanted to.

Of course, some VPNs will assure you that this can't happen to them because their companies are registered in countries where such legal provisions don't exist.

Any VPN knows where you are and, to some extent at least, who you are while you're using the system, and may even need to keep what amount to in-memory logs - ephemeral data, to use the jargon term - for some or all of each session, just to make the service work reliably.

According to a report published last week by VPNMentor, its researchers stumbled across copious user logs from seven VPNs operating out of Hong Kong.

News URL

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/07/20/7-vpns-that-leaked-their-logs-the-logs-that-didnt-exist/