- The accusations of the CEO of Windscriber, Yegor Sak, in Greece, were abandoned after a two -year legal battle
- The accusations were linked to the so -called Internet offenses by an unknown user in June 2023
- Sak was accused of having “illegal access to electronic data”
Windscribe won a historic case in Greece after a two -year legal battle, in a victory for VPN without software.
The co-founder and CEO of Windscriber, Yegor Sak, was charged in relation to an alleged offense on the Internet perpetrated by an unknown user in June 2023. On April 11, 2025, a court of Athens decided to reject the case against Sak for lack of evidence of all evil.
Our legal battle is over. A few years ago, an idiot used our VPN to do silly things. Greece then decided to load the CEO of Windscriber @yegor for crimes because it was its name on the invoice of the VPN server. No newspaper existed from anything. Rejected case. https://t.co/ipw0rkwgnrApril 25, 2025
According to the official legal document shared by Windscriber with Techradar, SAK was accused of “illegal access to electronic data” to send mass spam emails.
An anonymous user would have used a server belonging to Windscribe in Finland to break a website in Greece and launch attacks.
According to SAK, however, the Greek authorities have made no assignment to the VPN company, as the standard requires. Instead, they directly billed Sak, the holder of the Finland data center account involved in criminal activity.
“This establishes a precedent prerequisite for anyone who has servers that could be used by others,” said Sak. “If he is confirmed, he could have criminalized ownership of infrastructure for the actions taken by anonymous users.”
Not only does a Windscribe victory
The case against Windscriber was rejected for lack of evidence that the company VPN or Sak itself had committed reprehensible acts. It is not only a victory for Windscriber.
“It was not only for me,” said Sak. “It was a question of drawing a hard line around the role of privacy infrastructure providers. As we do not journey the activity of users, we cannot put what we have not.”
Some say that VPNs should be prohibited because a few people abuse them, but it is a rather wrong approach
Yegor Sak, Windscribe
A VPN without software is a guarantee that the supplier does not store or never follows user activities and all other data that can identify them. This means that providers cannot share any information with the police when they have been asked, because these details simply do not exist.
Some companies before Windscribe have proven the legitimacy of this functionality in real life over the years. For example, Mullvad did it in 2023 after being struck by a little conclusive police descent. Private access to the Internet (PIA) has also proven its complaints without software twice in court.
The main objective of Virtual Private Network (VPN) software is to keep anonymous people when they travel the web. This is why EU experts have considered these services a “key challenge” to the work of the police, the legislators currently examining if the data preservation requirements should be modified.
Sak, however, now reiterates Windscriber’s commitment to user confidentiality and transparency. He said: “Some say that VPN should be prohibited because some people abuse them, but it is a rather wrong approach. By this logic, we must also prohibit hammers and cars.”
