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These ‘no-log’ VPNs actually collect plenty of logs – and the data has been exposed – TechRadar

Seven Hong Kong-based VPN providers expose user data

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Researchers have discovered an unprotected database containing 1.2TB of information about users of seven separate VPN
services, all of which claim to collect no user logs.
First identified by researchers at Comparitech, the Elasticsearch cluster was configured in such a way that anyone could access it, and contained user data including login credentials, IP addresses, connection timestamps and more.
It was first thought the data was managed solely by UFO VPN, but a separate team at VPNmentor…

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