Heartbleed, the first hacker arrested

PArrested the hacker first and it took the Heartbleed error, which has exhibited for two years two-thirds of global web traffic. According to reports by the media in America from the North, as the Wall Street Journal, the Canadian police have arrested a 19-year-old boy. It would be guilty of the theft of data on the website of the Canada Revenue Agency carried out thanks to the ‘failure of the heart that bleeds’./PPAfter the discovery of the vulnerability, which affects the encryption technology of sensitive information from the users of the website such as passwords and credit card numbers, the Canadian Agency was one of the first not only to close access to users as a precautionary measure, but also to admit later that he had lost due to data Heartbleed. Hacker halted is called Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, 19, is a student “model” of Ontario and the son of a Professor of ‘informatica’ of the University of Western. It should respond to unauthorized computers and ‘mischievous’ data. Their computers were confiscated. It is not yet clear whether he had worked alone, says the Wall Street Journal, or what happened to the stolen data./PPThe arrest came two days after the public announcement by the Canadian Revenue Agency have observed the ‘removal’ of about 900 social security numbers of their systems (the fact that they had discovered three days earlier).BR/P
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