Potential attackers could have gotten into one server and intercept the traffic and seen what websites people are browsing - not the content, only the website - for a limited period of time, only in that isolated region This was done through an insecure remote management system account that the datacenter had added without our knowledge. Here is what NordVPN said about the Oct 21 breach:Ī datacenter in Finland we had been renting servers from was accessed without authorization. In an unrelated credential stuffing attack this VPN reported on Novemthat approximately 2,000 usernames and passwords were exposed. The company estimated that 20 to 70 active sessions were exposed during the breach. According to this VPN the data center disclosed the breach on Apand the contract was ended immediately. The cyberattack was the result of a vulnerability in a contracted data center’s remote administration system. The company confirmed that one of its servers based in Finland was briefly compromised in March 2018.ĭuring the breach the attackers were able to perform man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept the data of NordVPN users. ![]() On Octoa NordVPN server breach was disclosed in a twitter post from a security researcher. They also offer ample support documentation and FAQs on their website for users who who need tips for or assistance with streaming. BBC iPlayer was the only service we encountered problems with, and we were still able to stream when we used the NordVPN browser extension. ![]() Overall, this VPN performed extremely well in our streaming tests.
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