The consequences of this data breach may be enduring for UFO VPN’s purported 20 million subscribers leaving them vulnerable to cyber risks well into the future.Įxposed email addresses could be used by threat actors to target victims in spear phishing or other social engineering attacks. Among the cache of technical and behavioral information were users’ IP addresses, Geo-tags, account passwords saved in plaintext, device fingerprints, and payment information. Multiple instances of users’ online activity logs were also saved on the unsecured database, which belies the VPN providers’ claim that they did not log users’ activity. The data breach was the result of an unsecured database that UFO VPN and others were using to store user information.
We’ve written previously about the risks of using VPNs as a managed attribution solution, and the UFO VPN episode illustrates the exact consequences of using a sub-par MA solution.
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Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, are supposed to provide consumers with a secure and easy-to-use way to traverse the internet-after all, “private” is right there in the name. But what if the information we provided to those services was not so private?Īccording to security researchers, UFO VPN, a free VPN provider, exposed the personal information of millions of users, including their technical and behavioral indicators. The breach also extends to six other VPN services that appear to be connected to the Hong Kong-based UFO VPN. VPN Services Expose Millions of Users’ Personal Information
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