What and When Did NSA Know About Heartbleed Bug?

Bloomberg published an article claiming that two people close to the NSA had informed them that the infamous government agency had known about Heartbleed for as long as two years – using it to gather critical intelligence, obtain passwords, and grab other basic data that ultimately became the foundation for its recent-unveiled hacking operations.

Knowledge of the Heartbleed flaw supposedly allowed the agency to bypass strong encryption systems – the same systems that had been hailed by Edward Snowden as “one of the few things that you can rely on” in a Q&A session with British newspaper The Guardian in June 2013.

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