You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. This section is in list format but may read better as prose. The information, which allowed HSI to identify the customer, consisted of the customer's name, his email address, details of his VPN subscription, his real IP address ( Comcast) "as well as dates and times connected to, and disconnected from, the IRC network.” The logging of the customer's IP address and connection timestamps to the IRC service contradicts IPVanish's privacy policy, which states that " will never log any traffic or usage of our VPN." In 2017, IPVanish and its parent company were acquired by StackPath, and its founder and CEO, Lance Crosby, claims that "at the time of the acquisition, no logs existed, no logging systems existed and no previous/current/future intent to save logs existed." The story attracted attention on Reddit, when the court documents were posted on the /r/piracy subreddit.
The customer was suspected of sharing child pornography on an IRC network. Logging controversy Īccording to a June 2018 article by TorrentFreak, court documents have shown that IPVanish handed over personal information about a customer to the Department of Homeland Security (HSI) in 2016. In 2019, IPVanish was one of many VPN services acquired by J2 Global with their NetProtect business. In 2017, Highwinds Network Group was acquired by CDN company StackPath which included IPVanish as part of the acquisition.
IPVanish owns roughly 90% of its points of presence ( POPs), where the company controls the data center and hardware, or "the rack and stack." Its infrastructure is leased from third-party operators in regions "where it doesn’t make sense to have our own gear," such as Albania. The VPN owns and controls a private fiber-optic network of tier-1 servers. In later years, software support was expanded to include macOS, iOS, Android, and Fire TV. The VPN service started with 32 servers and a client for Windows operating systems. IPVanish was founded in 2012 by Mudhook Media Inc., an independent subsidiary of Highwinds Network Group in Orlando, Florida.
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