Comment on 19 Year Old Heartbleed Hacker Arrested For Hacking the CRAComments−Calcite12yThe article and comments are intense. The most likely scenario is that this 19 year old tested the Heartbleed vulnerability on the CRA and obtained SSN throught the exploit. I doubt the intention was to "steal" them or use them for criminal motive.−wvenable12yIt's entirely possible he didn't even know he had any numbers and perhaps never even saved it to disk.
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The article and comments are intense. The most likely scenario is that this 19 year old tested the Heartbleed vulnerability on the CRA and obtained SSN throught the exploit. I doubt the intention was to "steal" them or use them for criminal motive.
It's entirely possible he didn't even know he had any numbers and perhaps never even saved it to disk.