The truth behind Hola Unblocker!

Hola is a free browser extension and a Windows program that has 10 million users. It was created in 2012 and I did a review of it (that post has been taken down after I learned the dark truth). Initially I liked it, because I could watch Hulu and CBS online for free and legally (well, mostly legally anyways).

However, quickly the extension became bad. It started injecting ads into pages and that was when I disabled it. I was considering starting a similar paid service, a "startup" as some would call it, and was very curious about how it worked.

I reverse engineered their code and have gotten a list of proxies and the username and password that I have published HERE for all the people to see, use and abuse.

Now the dirty secret: Hola Networks Limited, that created Hola.org, runs a company called Luminati, that charges $20/GB for their premium VPN service. Okay, that’s not that bad, a little bit greedy but nothing sinister, you’re thinking? Well, it gets worse.

The hola extension that you install turns your browser into an exit node, so that other Hola users can mask their country of origin and pretend that they’re you.

Nowhere in their TOS, EULA and other documents do they mention that.

As a payback, I’m publishing the list of their proxies and the username and password so that people can abuse their network for free, or potentially notify the users.

Link to the dump HERE

Posted on May 28th, 2015 by Milan Kragujević.

Hola Proxy

List of Proxy Servers used by Hola

This is a list of Proxy Servers used by the Hola VPN and the username and password. Read the blog post here.

Autoconfiguration URL

http://client.hola.org/client_cgi/zgettunnels?rmt_ver=&ext_ver=&browser=&uuid=&session_key=&country={country}.peer

This is the URL where the client gets a proxy server for a given country. Replace {country} with one of the countries.

List of countries

ar, au, at, be, bo, br, cl, fi, fr, de, gi, gb, gr, hk, is, in, it, jp, kr, kw, mx, nl, nz, py, pe, pt, ro, ru, sh, es, se, ch, tw, uk, uy, us, ve

List of proxies

ar = zagent817.hola.org:24010
au = zagent358.hola.org:22223
at = zagent801.hola.org:24014
be = zagent48.hola.org:24021
bo = zagent732.hola.org:24026
br = zagent851.hola.org:22223
cl = zagent32.hola.org:22223
fi = zagent817.hola.org:24074
fr = zagent329.hola.org:22223
de = zagent91.hola.org:22223
gi = zagent814.hola.org:24084
gb = zagent58.hola.org:22223
gr = zagent984.hola.org:22223
hk = zagent708.hola.org:22223
is = zagent795.hola.org:24101
in = zagent880.hola.org:24102
it = zagent804.hola.org:24109
jp = zagent373.hola.org:22223
kr = zagent880.hola.org:24118
kw = zagent882.hola.org:24119
mx = zagent350.hola.org:24143
nl = zagent28.hola.org:22223
nz = zagent880.hola.org:24158
py = zagent880.hola.org:24172
pe = zagent815.hola.org:24173
pt = zagent732.hola.org:24177
ro = zagent797.hola.org:24181
ru = zagent176.hola.org:22223
sh = zagent814.hola.org:24185
es = zagent11.hola.org:22223
se = zagent838.hola.org:22223
ch = zagent622.hola.org:22223
tw = zagent48.hola.org:24217
uk = zagent514.hola.org:22223
uy = zagent804.hola.org:24237
us = zagent433.hola.org:22223
ve = zagent346.hola.org:24240

The Username and Password

Username: "user-uuid-71317a7827fa928352b29cc7ffe25f4f"
Password: "e883692e09c6"

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