VPN Providers Mull ‘Fraudster’ Database In Wake of Lulzec Fiasco

Last month it became clear that an alleged Lulzsec member who had carried out attacks on various organizations including Sony and the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, had used an ‘anonymous’ VPN service supplied by HideMyAss. According to documents obtained by TorrentFreak, VPN providers worried by the bad publicity are now considering data sharing to combat ‘fraudsters’.

September 2011 will be a month that VPN provider HideMyAss will want to forget. Dozens of news outlets retold the story that an alleged Lulzsec member, allegedly partly responsible for attacks on Sony, the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, AT&T, Viacom, Disney, EMI, NBC Universal, AOL and NATO, not to mention the newspapers The Sun & The Times, had used their services to remain anonymous. Read more...