Stephen Solis-Reyes, accused in CRA Heartbleed hack, has case put over

The case of StephenArthuroSolis-Reyes, the Ontario university student charged after hundreds of social insurance numbers were allegedly accessed from the Revenue Canada website this spring, has been remanded until Aug. 14.

Solis-Reyes, 19,was not at the hearing in Ottawa Thursdaywhen the case was put over.

Solis-Reyes, a student at Western University in London, has beencharged with one count of unauthorized use of a computer and one count of mischief in relation to data for an incident in which RCMP allege 900 SINs were accessed by exploiting the so-called Heartbleed security flaw on the Canada Revenue Agency website

The CRAtemporarily shut down some access to its website late on April 8 in response to security concerns aboutthe Heartbleedbug. The security flaw in its website encryption software left some data vulnerable to hackers.

The agency notified the privacy commissioner and the RCMP a few days later, after it says it realized data on the site had been accessed over a six-hour period.