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Click HereImproving Network and Application PerformanceThe CRA said no other breaches had been detected.
"It is believed Solis-Reyes was able to extract private information held by CRA by exploitingthe vulnerability known as the Heartbleed bug," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in astatement.
Read more on HeartbleedHeartbleedrepairs threaten to cripple the internetMumsnetbecomes first known UK victim of Heartbleed bugCanadaRevenue Agency reports Heartbleed data theftHeartbleeddenial reveals loophole for NSA spyingCiscoand Juniper warn of products hit by Heartbleed bugTheHeartbleed genie is out of the bottleThe National Security Agency says it did not know about a critical security bug until it became public earlier this month.
The NSA was responding to a report from Bloomberg that the agency had known about the vulnerability known as "Heartbleed" for two years and instead of alerting the tech community, it exploited the bug to "gather critical intelligence."
Just to catch you up: The Heartbleed bug has led tech experts to call on Internet users worldwide to change the passwords they use on popular and sensitive sites, like that of their bank or email provider. As NPR's Jeremy Bowers explained, the bug allowed an attacker to receive the encryption keys used to transmit information like your username and password. In other words, the bug allowed access to the "crown jewels."
In a statement, the NSA said Bloomberg's report was simply "wrong." The U.S., the NSA said, would reveal this kind of vulnerability to developers if it ever came upon it. The statement goes on:
"The Federal government relies on OpenSSL to protect the privacy of users of government websites and other online services. This Administration takes seriously its responsibility to help maintain an open, interoperable, secure and reliable Internet. If the Federal government, including the intelligence community, had discovered this vulnerability prior to last week, it would have been disclosed to the community responsible for OpenSSL.
"When Federal agencies discover a new vulnerability in commercial and open source software
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Site administrators were sent scrambling this week when researchers disclosed the potentially catastrophic Heartbleed bug, a coding error that left much of the Internet vulnerable to data theft since March 2012. Here's our look back at Heartbleed coverage
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