The Heartbleed bug, which exploited vulnerabilities across the Internet and paralyzed the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) website, has given way to a tax deadline extension.
The CRA announced April 13 it would let people files their taxes up to May 5 without facing any penalties. The usual date to file taxes by is April 30.
The CRA admitted about 900 taxpayers were affected by a breach to the government agency’s system over a six-hour window on April 8.
The government shut down the CRA website as it investigated the breach and built a patch to restore security measures.
“We are currently going through the painstaking process of analyzing other fragments of data, some that may relate to businesses, that were also removed,”
CRA Commissioner Andrew Treusch said in a statement.
