# HMA VPN (إتش إم إيه في بي إن)

> HMA VPN is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-09-05.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: In Review
- Company: [Gen Digital](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/gen-digital.md)
- Categories: VPN Services, Proxy Services
- Official site: https://www.hidemyass.com
- Community votes: 3
- Last updated: 2026-09-05
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/hma-vpn

## About

VPN service for private browsing, IP masking, and bypassing geographic restrictions

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. Volunteers contacted Gen Digital and HMA VPN support in February and March 2026 asking that access be restored, and only an automated acknowledgment has been received so far.

## Community reports

- 2026-03-16 — Company Responded. HMA's support system auto-acknowledged the request with a ticket number, pointing to its self-service support page. No substantive human response followed.
- 2026-03-16 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer emailed HMA VPN's support team asking that the service be enabled for users in Syria.
- 2026-03-05 — Investigated. Community testing found that HMA VPN's mobile app refuses to connect from Syria, showing a geo-restriction message and offering no option but to close the app.
- 2026-02-16 — Contacted Company. A community volunteer emailed Gen Digital's press, investor relations and DMCA teams, citing the 2025 lifting of US sanctions and asking that access for Syrian users be restored across its products. No reply yet.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/hma-vpn?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/hma-vpn/timeline-entries?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/hma-vpn
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/hma-vpn.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/hma-vpn.md