Don’t assume these VPN services are a silver bullet to security matters, your best bet is gen up on the safer use of your smart tech and take sensible, basic measures to protect yourself. Couple of things that go a long way to helping are to Use a different complex password for each account and keep the software/firmware up to date - most devices can do this automatically if you OK it.
NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked.
The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had
an expired internal private key exposed, potentially allowing anyone to spin out their own servers imitating NordVPN.
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