‘No-Logs’ VPN Provider - PureVPN - Shares User Logs with the FBI

 



FBI Arrests Cyberstalker After ‘No-Logs’ VPN Provider - PureVPN - Shares User Logs

 

A cyber-stalker in the United States was arrested by the FBI after a popular VPN provider with a no-logs policy - PureVPN - allowed the government agency skim through its user logs to find and track the culprit’s IP address. According to the Department of Justice, 24-year-old Ryan Lin, of Newton, Mass. allegedly waged "an extensive, multi-faceted campaign of computer hacking and cyberstalking that began in April 2016 and continued until the date of his arrest"... While the FBI truly did a great job; PureVPN, whose first line of the privacy policy is - "We Do Not monitor user activity nor do we keep any logs" - has literally betrayed its users who trusted PureVPN to protect their activities online.

Read more... https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/no-logs-vpn-service-security_8.html

PureVPN responded to the claims that it shared logs with the FBI here:
Setting the Record Straight: Addressing VPN Privacy and VPN Logs
https://www.purevpn.com/blog/vpn-logs-explained/


A VPN helps to protect your privacy on-line, but it is not a tool to be used for criminal activity. As we have seen with PureVPN, just because your VPN claims that it does not monitor your activity, and claims that it does not keep logs, there is no guarantee that this is actually true.