Here is an excerpt from the announcement:

However, it is only when you get further down in the article that we learn why things are changing. The article begins by explaining what is changing and the impact on users. On July 8th, Yegor Sak, founder of Windscribe, announced on the Windsribe blog that “OpenVPN Security Improvements and Changes” were in the works. Unfortunately, things did not go so well with Windscribe, prompting a major security overhaul, audit announcement, and more… Windscribe servers seized, critical data left unencrypted This case verified ExpressVPN’s no-logs claims, and they even went on to follow Perfect Privacy’s lead and converted all servers to run in RAM-disk with no hard drives. They seized the ExpressVPN server in question, but again, there were no logs or data available. Authorities in Turkey were investigating a criminal suspect, who they believed also used ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN, which is based in the British Virgin Islands, had a similar incident.This ensures no user data can ever be stored on any VPN server and nothing is available for anyone who seizes a server. Additionally, Perfect Privacy runs all servers on RAM memory only, without hard drives.

Perfect Privacy’s servers were securely encrypted and did not contain any logs, thereby preventing any customer data from being exposed.

Perfect Privacy, a Switzerland-based VPN, had servers in Rotterdam, Netherlands seized by authorities.

Here are two such examples that we covered in our no logs VPN article: If the VPN service has its act together, this should not be a big deal. We have been following the VPN space closely for many years and have seen a few cases where authorities have seized VPN servers. When servers are secure, server seizures are no big deal To understand why, let’s first look at a few previous examples before we closely examine what went wrong with Windscribe. While you may think that a VPN server seizure could be devastating for user privacy, this is not always the case. However, in some cases, a VPN will deviate from “industry best practices” - and this can harm and/or put the VPN’s users at risk. Millions of people around the world use VPN services, trusting that the VPN has taken the proper steps to ensure security. Windscribe staff has admitted they failed to properly encrypt their servers and are in the process of updating VPN infrastructure to “follow industry best practices.” Ukrainian authorities seized Windscribe servers and also obtained Windscribe’s private key, which allows them to decrypt traffic from Windscribe users. Windscribe, a popular VPN based in Canada, has suffered a major security breach.

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