19 Year Old Heartbleed Hacker Arrested For Hacking the CRA

19 Year Old Heartbleed Hacker Arrested For Hacking the CRA(washingtonpost.com)

11 points by csel 12 years ago | 9 comments

wvenable 12 years ago |

Ugh, the comments on that article are terrible. Of course it's entirely possible the comments on every major news article everywhere are terrible.

yukichan 12 years ago | |

For what it's worth, if you have Ghostery installed you cannot see the comments. The intent is to block tracking but the added benefit of not seeing comments is a nice plus.

anaphor 12 years ago | | |

<3 Ghostery. I assume the comments are your typical "all hackers should die! One of them stole my yahoo account once!" stuff?

ehPReth 12 years ago |

Here's an article with more information from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-arthuro-solis-reyes-...

Calcite 12 years ago |

The article and comments are intense. The most likely scenario is that this 19 year old tested the Heartbleed vulnerability on the CRA and obtained SSN throught the exploit. I doubt the intention was to "steal" them or use them for criminal motive.

wvenable 12 years ago | |

It's entirely possible he didn't even know he had any numbers and perhaps never even saved it to disk.

neals 12 years ago |

So... didn't we all have little peak around the internet last week? Are we all in trouble now?