Hola's founder has confirmed the popular VPN Chrome extension sells its users' bandwidth in order to cover the cost of offering its free service -- resulting in a vast botnet-for-sale network ...

Hola VPN is based in Israel, which isn’t officially a member of the 5, 9, or 14 Eyes intelligence-sharing alliances. That said, Israel is widely recognized as ‘close ally’ of the 14 Eyes ...

This essentially turns a Hola user’s computer into a VPN server, or a small part of one. If you’re in Nebraska, for example, and Hola is running on your PC, you might help users outside the U ...