



“The RCMP treated this breach of security as a high priority case and mobilized the necessary resources to resolve the matter as quickly as possible,”





Heartbleed is one of the critical and biggest vulnerability in the recent history, that was found in the OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS/DTLS heartbeat extension. This vulnerability allows the hackers to steal major credentials data from the affected server.









vulnerability which was headlines from last two weeks have once again made a new headline. A 19 years old,an computer science student of Western University have been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He is been charged with the unauthorized access of the computer and criminal mischief in relation to the data breach of taxpayer’s private information from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website.Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud said in a statement After the public disclosure of the Hearbleed, Stephen have exploited the vulnerability present on the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website and extract the private and sensitive information, including the social insurance numbers from the company’s system, before the computers were patched.Assistant Commissioner added.Exploiting the Heartbleed bug itself rarely leaves any traces, unless the attacker is not sending millions of heartbeats continuously from his own IP addresses. "The fact that they were able to trace it back to someone implies that it is not the work of organized crime or a professional hacker. It would be someone of very low skill." said Mark Nunnikhoven, Trend Micro.was arrested at his residence without incident on April 15 and is scheduled to appear in court in Ottawa on July 17, 2014, RCMP reported. The police also seized computer equipment from his residence, while the investigation is ongoing.