VPN or spies? 1TB plaintext data in Hong Kong

What can happen if a VPN does not keep its promises? The problem can be relative when it is used simply to obtain small advantages in the location of one's geolocation, but when there are personal security issues at stake then everything changes. This is why what happened in Hong Kong must make you think and must lead everyone to think carefully before relying on a VPN or other security tools when surfing.

VPN or spies?

How much success, in fact, is related to a VPN that would have left freely accessible a large database of information about its users: there are passwords, browsing data and much more, all freely in the clear in a folder of just under 1TB available on Elasticsearch server . But that's not all: the VPN in question clearly promised not to track users' activities outside of its website, but the data testify to exactly the opposite: the tracking was complete and the data was even made public.

But apparently all this is only a Pandora's box now uncovered: in fact, 7 VPNs based in Hong Kong would have held similar behaviors: UFO VPN, FAST VPN, Free VPN, Super VPN, Flash VPN, Secure VPN and Rabbit VPN. The story came to the surface after the discovery of data relating to UFO VPN users, but overall there are over 1.2 TB of data available and all this in a highly sensitive area such as that of Hong Kong (where the political revolt and the arrests are on the agenda now).

What happened? UFO VPN assigns the blame to the coronavirus, explaining to staff through service and to be incurred then in an error. The definite feeling is that all is well just random and not an error. Thinking evil is a sin, but in this case most likely you can gain from.

Source: Hackread