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Community Health Systems Breach Possible due to Heartbleed Vulnerability

20
Aug
2014

The breaking into the network of Community Health Systems (CHS) that ended with details of 4.5 million patients being exfiltrated by the hackers, was possible by exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability present on a CHS Juniper device.

By leveraging the flaw in the OpenSSL cryptographic library, the attackers were able to extract user credentials from the memory of the server, which were used for connecting to the systems via a VPN (virtual private network).

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