The two cases appear to be unrelated, but in both instances snoops seemingly used the now-infamous flaw in OpenSSL, an online encryption software, to access the sites databases. In at least one of the breaches the hackers stole hundreds of users personal information. When the Heartbleed bug was exposed last week (Apr. 8) the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) immediately took its website down in order to start patching the flaw.
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