THE HILL — The White House is denying a report that National Security Agency (NSA) was aware of a massive security flaw affecting websites across the Internet and used the bug in order to obtain personal data.
Bloomberg reported on Friday that the spy agency was aware of the “Heartbleed” security glitch for at least two years and used it to obtain passwords and other data. But White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said Friday that this report is “wrong.”
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“The Federal government was not aware of the recently identified vulnerability in [the encryption software] OpenSSL until it was made public in a private sector cybersecurity report,” she added. That report came out earlier this week.
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