Hackers take 900 Canadian tax IDs using Heartbleed
Monday, April 14, 2014 at 7:05PM
Nicole Batac in Canada Revenue Agency, Heartbleed, News, Public service, Security, data security, security breach

Hackers were quick to take advantage of the Heartbleed vulnerability and breached the Canada Revenue Agency to take around 900 Social Insurance Numbers and other unidentified business data. According to Engadget, the security breach happened after the public learned about Heartbleed. The agency tried to secure its system immediately but they weren’t apparently fast enough. There are reportedly no other breaches aside from this incident and the authorities are applying more security measures to make sure the compromised accounts won’t be misused.

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