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October 6, 2013 05:52 pm GMT

PureVPN Hit With A Zero Day Exploit, But CEO Says Email Alleging Data Compromise Was Fake

purevpn logoPureVPN -- one of the VPN tunnelling services that assign new IP addresses to a users' connected devices, useful for those accessing the Internet in firewalled countries or those who want to use services that are usually geo-restricted at their current location -- has been dealt a double blow by malicious hackers in the last several hours: a zero-day exploit through a third-party CRM service the company uses; and then a subsequent letter sent out to some users alleging account closure and a data compromise, which turned out to be fake.

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