Hey all, I&#x27;m relaying an email I received from PIA, in case you don&#x27;t often check the one attached to your VPN account:<p>&quot;Dear Valued Customer,<p>On November 17, we were privately notified of an IP address leak vulnerability affecting the port forwarding feature of our service. Essentially, anyone connecting to a forwarded port on any of our VPN gateways could have their real IP address leaked to an attacker specifically targeting a PIA user.<p>Within 12 hours of the initial report, we developed and tested what we thought was a complete fix, and deployed it to all of our VPN gateways.<p>On November 26, the researchers who discovered the vulnerability made it public and we quickly noticed that our service was still vulnerable to the IP address leak in certain cases, despite our initial fix. After further investigation, we also realized there was a separate but related issue on our desktop client. To fix this issue we are releasing updated VPN apps to prevent any leaks. We released v.52 on November 27.<p>Protecting your privacy is our top priority and although exploiting this vulnerability is difficult and requires an attacker to specifically target you, we feel like we let you down with our initial response. Please accept our apologies, we are sorry.<p>We highly recommend users update to v.52 (or later) of the client. To ensure all of our beloved users remain protected, we have pushed an update to existing clients. Please update immediately from the application or visit one of the following links:<p>Windows: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&#x2F;installer&#x2F;download_installer_win<p>Mac: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&#x2F;installer&#x2F;download_installer_osx<p>Note: If you are connecting to our service with a native OpenVPN client, or PIA&#x27;s Android or iOS apps, you do not need a client-side fix.&quot;
PSA: PrivateInternetAccess Vulnerability