Online Retailers Scramble to Assess Heartbleed Vulnerability

When the people in charge of keeping websites secure and sensitive data private are running scared, you know it's time to worry. A vulnerability called the Heartbleed Bug was discovered recently, and, one of the things that has people freaking out is that companies don't know if their data was ever compromised over the two-year period of vulnerability. To online shoppers and merchants alike, that's frightening news.