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FBI busts cyberstalker after VPN service without logs provides logs?

Posted on October 9, 2017June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Swati Khandelwal reports – and comments –

FBI recently arrested a psycho cyber stalker with the help of a popular VPN service and this case apparently exposed the company’s lies about the “no logs” policy.

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A 24-year-old Massachusetts man, Ryan Lin, has been arrested in a Cyberstalking case after one of the largest VPN providers, PureVPN, helped the FBI with information that linked Lin to his alleged cyber crimes.

Read more on The Hacker News.  I do not see any statement on PureVPN’s site addressing this case or how they managed to basically log when they said they don’t log. Hopefully, they will issue some statement.

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