NordVPN shared the results of an audit into its 'no-logs' policy with customers yesterday. The audit, conducted by one of the Big 4 accounting firms, was triggered by damaging allegations earlier this year. The results, however, suggest that NordVPN is living up to its no-logging promises.
Earlier this year a series of allegations were lodged against NordVPN. The company was being linked to Lithuanian tech company Tesonet, which offers a wide range of services and products. According to the allegations, Tesonet owns NordVPN, a claim the latter denied. The issue raised alarm bells with some people because Tesonet is involved in data mining practices, and the company also runs a residential proxy network. There is no evidence that NordVPN is involved in any of that, but it was enough to feed speculation. When we
reported on the saga, NordVPN committed to hiring a prominent third-party auditing firm to test its “no-logging” claims. The result of this audit was released with customers yesterday, and a few journalists also got a chance to read it.
As part of an agreement with the auditing firm, the report can’t be published in public. NordVPN can’t cite from it either so the company released a
blog post with a summary instead. “The auditors’ goal was to see if our service lives up to our claims of providing a no-logs VPN service, and we believe we’ve passed the test,” NordVPN’s Daniel Markuson writes. TorrentFreak has seen a copy of the report which is relatively concise. It’s limited in the sense that it only reviews the situation at the time of the audit, which may change at any given time. Overall, it confirms that the company doesn’t store personal IP-address logs of users, nor does it keep track of subscribers’ Internet activities. This is what’s typically understood to be a ‘no-log’ policy.
