Revenue Canada shuts website to head off Heartbleed Bug

The Canada Revenue Agency has shut down the public access portion of its website due to the Heartbleed Bug.

The Heartbleed Bug is a recently discovered vulnerability in a version of OpenSSL software code that is installed on two-thirds of the active websites on the internet. 

Although OpenSSL is believed to be benign and comparatively safe and secure, the Heartbleed vulnerability could allow a malicious user to read the memory of systems protected by the bug-afflicted code, compromising the secret keys used to encrypt the data.

"Essentially they'd get a second key to your house and can walk in whenever they want," technology analyst Carmi Levy told CBC News to describe the bug on Wednesday.

The tax agency announced the partial shutdown of its website in a note on the site Wednesday morning, but provided little detail, saying the move was done as a precaution.

The Canada Revenue Agency website blocked partial access early Wednesday.

"To protect the security of taxpayer information, we have temporarily shutdown public access to our electronic services. We are working to restore these services as soon as possible in a manner that ensures they are safe and secure," the website read.

However, the agency later told CBC News in an email that the shutdown is related to the Heartbleed Bug. 

Minister of Revenue Kerry-Lynne Findlay's office says they are working to investigate "any impact to taxpayer information."

The agency tweeted days earlier that 1,763 online returns were being processed per minute.

More than 6.7 million Canadians have filed tax returns electronically as of March 24. That represents almost 84 per cent of returns. 

The 2014 deadline for personal income tax filing for the 2013 tax year is at the end of this month.

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