Popular VPN Service NordVPN Says it Was Hacked

'NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to "protect
your privacy online," has confirmed it was hacked. From a report:

The admission comes following rumors that the company had been
breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal
private keys exposed, potentially allowing anyone to spin out their
own servers imitating NordVPN. For its part, NordVPN has claimed a
"zero logs" policy. "We don't track, collect, or share your private
data," the company says. But the breach is likely to cause alarm that
hackers may have been in a position to access some user data. NordVPN
told TechCrunch that one of its datacenters was accessed in March
2018. "One of the datacenters in Finland we are renting our servers
from was accessed with no authorization," said NordVPN spokesperson
Laura Tyrell. The attacker gained access to the server -- which had
been active for about a month -- by exploiting an insecure remote
management system left by the datacenter provider, which NordVPN said
it was unaware that such a system existed.'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/10/21/1447208

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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
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