Ontario (Canada): A19-year-old London based Ontario resident called Stephen Solis-Reyes has been arrested for stealing details of taxpayers in Canada by using the notorious Heartbleed OpenSSL bug on the concerned website. He was charged with unauthorized use of a computer to commit malpractices in relation to data. According to the Revenue Agency in Canada he has stolen roughly 900 Social Insurance Numbers (SINs), after attacking on the concerned website using Heartbleed bug. It is believed that Solis-Reyes could have extracted the private information held by Canadian Revenue Agency by exploiting the vulnerability with the Heartbleed bug. Solis-Reyes was apprehended at his residence in Ontario and seized his computer equipments to subject them for an extraction process The Heartbleed bug allows hackers to send fake heartbeat messages, which can mistake a website server into relaying data that’s stored in its memory. This includes sensitive information such as user-names, passwords, credit card numbers, emails, and more.

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