By Zach Epstein
By now, we all know what a huge deal Heartbleed is. The massive vulnerability in OpenSSL protocol
impacted 66% of all sites on the Internet at the time of its discovery,
and now companies are scrambling to fix the issue. Most big companies
seem to have done a pretty good job of acting quickly, but this bug is
several years old so users have been at risk for quite some time
regardless of how quickly a site might have patched the flaw. As such,
the cybersecurity experts at LWG Consulting have compiled a great list
of all the huge sites that were impacted by Heartbleed.
Do
you have accounts on any of the sites listed below? Change your
password immediately — and be sure to change your passwords on any other
sites if you use the same password there.
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