NordVPN admits ‘isolated’ data breach was discovered last year
Virtual private network provider NordVPN, which operates in more than 60 countries, was breached last year after an outsider infiltrated a Finnish data center, the firm said Monday. In a statement on its website, NordVPN said it learned in March 2018 about the intrusion, which occurred on a server that NordVPN rents from another company. The hacker leveraged an unprotected remote management system left exposed by the data center. The VPN provider says usernames and passwords could not have been intercepted, and user activity logs likewise seem safe. It may have been possible, though, for the intruder to abuse website traffic and monitor some user activity, NordVPN says. The affected server was taken offline and “ceased to exist” on March 5, 2018, while NordVPN ended its contract with the data center provider as a result of the incident. “This was an isolated case, and no other data center providers we use have been […]
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