Customers of Private Internet access were notified via email of a data hack when the company discovered a vulnerability to an IP address affecting the port forwarding feature of the service the companion provided to customers. On November 17, we were privately notified of an IP address leak vulnerability affecting the embrasure forwarding feature of our service. Essentially, anyone connecting to a forwarded port on any of our VPN gateways could have their real IP destination leaked to an attacker specifically targeting a PIA user. Within 12 hours of the initial report, we developed and tested what we thought was a nail fix, and deployed it to all of our VPN gateways. On November 26, the researchers who discovered the vulnerability made it public and we quickly noticed that our service was still vulnerable to the IP speech leak in certain cases, despite our initial fix. After further investigation, we also realized there was a part but related emerge on our desktop client. To hole this egress we are releasing updated VPN apps to prevent any leaks. We released v.52 on November 27.The companionship is recommending anyone who uses their service to pee sure they have the most recent free v.52 to avoid vulerability.More information: http://www.datahackes.net/private-internet-access-notifies-customers-o...