One of its users got arrested: So wait, isn't it private? "Our VPN service and VPN services in general are not designed to be used to commit illegal activity. It is very naive to think that by paying a subscription fee to a VPN service you are free to break the law without any consequences. This includes certain hardcore privacy services which claim you will never be identified, these types of services that do not cooperate are more likely to have their entire VPN network monitored and tapped by law enforcement, thus affecting all legitimate customers."<br />
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OK - except it then says that its purpose is to help people in countries that are restrictive to get around censorship. So does it only cooperate with some law enforcement agencies? <br />
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Anyhow, it will have the hackers thinking about where they should go...

…so perhaps they should have gone to AirVPN: "An 'HideMyAss' VPN service user identity has been compromised and as a consequence personal freedom of the customer is now at stake. <br />
"As a consequence, apparently to defend their activity by saying that they did nothing more than any other provider would have done, HideMyAss released a series of statements which are not correct. <br />
"For example, they claimed that 'all VPN providers keep logs. When there was a court order issued to them, they WILL release it'. On top of that, they released on their website a communiqué which, in our opinion, is harmful to the professional reputation and to the the status of mere conduit of a service provider.<br />
"For the aforementioned reasons, we would like to re-assure our users and our customers that nothing like that may happen with AirVPN, for a series of legislative (we are based in the EU, not in the USA, and we don't recognize USA jurisdiction, obviously) and above all technical reasons."