The full extent of the damage caused by the Heartbleed vulnerability may not be known for months. New reports of compromised systems are appearing daily.
Also in Heartbleed news: apparently the recently-reported Heartbleed-based intrusion of the Canada Revenue Agency was the work of a teenaged computer science student. He’s been arrested. It seems clear that his motivation was curiosity rather than something more sinister, since he did absolutely nothing to conceal his identity.
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