Hola sold users' bandwidth for botnets

[TEXTILE GUY]

I stumbled across this while on the TF site ............

....... it seems that the Hola plugin has been doing the dirty and upset 8chan along the way..... with your help if you use the plugin.

Hola, one of the most popular online services for viewing blocked videos and TV shows from other countries, has turned its users into a botnet without their knowledge. The software, which is available as plugin for the Chrome browser on desktop and mobile devices, had previously been praised for offering an easy-to-use and free service. However, it seems the company has been discreetly selling users' "idle resources" (i.e. their bandwidth) via a separate Luminati brand, allowing anyone to buy traffic in bulk and redirect it to a target site as a denial-of-service attack. Essentially, Hola's users have been unwitting mercenaries in a botnet-for-hire.

Source:The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8685251/hola-vpn-botnet-selling-users-bandwidth

“Hola has gotten greedy. They recently (late 2014) realized that they basically have a 9 million IP strong botnet on their hands, and they began selling access to this botnet (right now, for HTTP requests only) at https://luminati.io,” the 8chan owner says.

TorrentFreak asked Vilenski about Brennan’s claims. Again, there was no denial.

Sorce: Torrent Freak

https://torrentfreak.com/hola-vpn-sells-users-bandwidth-150528/

 

[biometrics]

Feck.

 

[koeksGHT]

Sent them a mail could use

 

[Foxhound5366]

Here's me happy I'd uninstalled Hola a while back. Didn't feel comfortable with a plug-in like that, because I never knew when it turned itself off ... and now, thank goodness.

 

[Polymathic]

Use wonder why Hola use to use so much data while idle

 

[genetic]

/Uninstalls Holla.

Was fun while it lasted.