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[Privacy] International VPN Provider Searched by Authorities in Germany

Perfect Privacy reports today, that a member of the staff of the well known international VPN provider Perfect Privacy has been police searched last friday (August 20th).

H-Security writes:

The search warrant was reportedly issued on suspicion that unknown perpetrators may have routed potentially criminal communications via the servers in the German city of Erfurt.

Perfect Privacy writes:

The servers have so far not been confiscated. We decided, however, to disable all services (OpenVPN, PPTP VPN, L2TP/IPSec VPN, SOCKS5, SQUID) in Erfurt temporarily in order to give those of our members, who have elevated security needs, time to read this announcement and to evaluate the risks. It is not known to us whether the authorities initiated measures such as telecommunication monitoring in Erfurt. (..)

It is not known (..) whether the authorities initiated measures such as telecommunication monitoring in Erfurt.

Users with security concerns better do not connect via Erfurt at the moment.