A UK city council has been hit by a £100,000 fine after it suffered an embarrassing data breach as a result of not patching against the infamous Heartbleed vulnerability in a timely fashion. As regular readers will recall, the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL was discovered in 2014, giving malicious hackers, security researchers and snoopers a method to spy upon what should have been private communications, and scoop up confidential information such as email addresses and passwords.

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