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Heartbleed hacks hit Mumsnet, too

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Dissent

Leo Kelion reports that like the Canada Revenue Agency, Mumsnet has also fallen victim to exploitation of Heartbleed:

A leading UK site for parents and the Canadian tax authority have both announced they have had data stolen by hackers exploiting the Heartbleed bug.

Mumsnet – which says it has 1.5 million registered members – said that it believed that the cyber thieves may have obtained passwords and personal messages before it patched its site.

The Mumsnet site’s founder Justine Roberts told the BBC that it became apparent that user data was at risk when her own username and password were used to post a message online.

She said the hackers then informed Mumsnet’s administrators that the attack was linked to the Heartbleed flaw and told them the company’s data was not safe.

Read more on BBC.

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