Which VPNs have published an independent audit, with sources
sirmasteroldspi
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November 09, 2026
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sirmasteroldspi
I run a small VPN review site and kept finding "independently audited" in marketing copy with no report behind it. So I built a table of all 71 providers I cover and recorded only audits where there's a dated report or announcement from the provider or the auditor, with a link to each. Disclosure: I used Claude to do the first pass of the research and to build the page. It fetched every source URL and I checked the ones it flagged as uncertain by hand (Norton, NordVPN, hide.me, CactusVPN). Results: 23 have at least one audit. 48 have never published any. 30 audits in the last 24 months, almost all no-logs attestations; only a handful cover apps or infrastructure. Surprises: NordVPN's reports are only readable inside a customer account. Cloudflare's KPMG examinations cover the 1.1.1.1 resolver and never mention WARP, so WARP is listed as unaudited. Several big names have exactly one audit from years ago.