full-disclosure - Re: [FD] Suspect arrested who used Heartbleed to infiltrate the Canada Revenue Agency (Our IRS)

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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:28:48 -0600
From: Andrew Klaus <andrewklaus@...il.com>
To: Justin Bull <me@...tinbull.ca>
Cc: "fulldisclosure@...lists.org" <fulldisclosure@...lists.org>
Subject: Re: [FD] Suspect arrested who used Heartbleed to infiltrate the
 Canada Revenue Agency (Our IRS)

I'm guessing he scripted to pull as many login/passes (or cookies) as
possible, then simply looped through them and grabbed the SIN data from the
web interface. Needing to "login" to each.

Indeed, what an idiot.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Justin Bull <me@...tinbull.ca> wrote:

> Some 19 year old kid used heartbleed to gain access to the CRA systems and
> purge 900 SINs (akin to SSN) from the agency.
>
> What a fool.
>
>
> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rcmp-charge-teen-in-relation-to-alleged-heartbleed-bug-theft/article18041007/#dashboard/follows/
>
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> Justin Bull
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