The Browser Hack That Put Opera out of Tune

As we covered before, Opera is currently regarded as one of the best and most secure browsers out there. The good and useful features that it has, such as allowing your own custom security settings and advanced encryption, don’t make this an impenetrable browser for hackers, though. In fact, Opera has recently been attacked by these cybercriminals, who, according to Opera, “may have compromised user data, including passwords and login names”.

Not necessarily. As you may know, since we covered this before, Opera acquired the VPN provider SurfEasy not long ago and was therefore responsible for the creation of the aforementioned browser extension. As we’ve seen, the only service affected by the latest hacker attacks was Opera Sync, but one cannot avoid getting concerned over using a VPN that now belongs to a company whose security was able to be circumvented in a service meant to save usernames and passwords. Overall, we still think that SurfEasy is one of the top VPN providers with one of the widest server networks we’ve ever seen. The latest attack doesn’t necessarily mean that we must never trust SurfEasy or Opera again or that their credibility is loss. Instead, it should be used as a warning for you to keep an eye out for what software you use.