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19 Year Old Heartbleed Hacker Arrested For Hacking the CRA
- wvenable 12y agoUgh, the comments on that article are terrible. Of course it's entirely possible the comments on every major news article everywhere are terrible.
- yukichan 12y agoFor 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 12y ago<3 Ghostery. I assume the comments are your typical "all hackers should die! One of them stole my yahoo account once!" stuff?
- yukichan 12y agoI have no idea, thankfully.
- peterwwillis 12y agoIgnorance is bliss.
- Calcite 12y agoThe 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 12y agoIt's entirely possible he didn't even know he had any numbers and perhaps never even saved it to disk.
- ehPReth 12y agoHere's an article with more information from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-arthuro-solis-reyes-charged-in-heartbleed-related-sin-theft-1.2612526 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-arthuro-solis-reyes-...
- neals 12y agoSo... didn't we all have little peak around the internet last week? Are we all in trouble now?