Dutch Authorities Seized Servers of Windscribe VPN Provider

Dutch authorities seized a Windscribe VPN server in the Netherlands during an undisclosed investigation, but the provider asserts no user data was accessible due to its RAM-only, diskless infrastructure that wipes on power loss and reloads a fresh Ubuntu instance. Supported by independent audits and a long-running transparency report showing zero log availability, Windscribe emphasized its no-identifying-logs policy and noted that even potential live-memory capture was unlikely in this case. The incident underscores increasing law enforcement actions targeting VPN infrastructure while highlighting the efficacy and limits of privacy-by-design approaches.