ghostwalking

"confidential and trade secret information" appears to reference a stolen install script:

https://torguard.net/blog/when-bug-bounties-border-on-blackm...

What kind of 'trade secret information' could a vpn provider be blackmailed with though?

According to TorGuard's blog post they stole information from an install script that was allegedly used at C7 hosting:

https://torguard.net/blog/when-bug-bounties-border-on-blackm...

An installer script could easily give an attacker insight into internal TorGuard IP addresses that would otherwise be hidden.

My guess is these internal IP addresses from whatever was stolen were targeted with DDOS.

The NordVPN blog post leaves me with many questions.

1) Someone supposedly "gave" them the URL. They do not state how they found it, or how it was related to TorGuard. So who gave it to them? The Collective 7 hosting company? It appears Collective 7 was selling "Residential Solutions for VPN Providers":

http://web.archive.org/web/20171215024207/http://collectives...

2) Did they ask TorGuard to censor Youtuber "Tom spark reviews"? It seems he is critical of them: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJWKuGh0qedrYviGEJmlWw

Tom Spark was also doxxed by the ProtonMail Reddit rep for posting videos they did not like: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/96m5vc/is_it_tru...

Found the link here: https://medium.com/@gaetanosabin/did-nordvpn-and-protonmail-...

So it doesn't surprise me that NordVPN (Proton) wants this Youtube Streamer's videos and blog taken down.

Shouldn't NordVPN and Proton uphold user privacy and fight against internet censorship? They are doing the exact opposite here and that is very troubling.