Ugh, the comments on that article are terrible. Of course it's entirely possible the comments on every major news article everywhere are terrible.
For what it's worth, if you have Ghostery installed you cannot see the comments. The intent is to block tracking but the added benefit of not seeing comments is a nice plus.
<3 Ghostery. I assume the comments are your typical "all hackers should die! One of them stole my yahoo account once!" stuff?
The article and comments are intense. The most likely scenario is that this 19 year old tested the Heartbleed vulnerability on the CRA and obtained SSN throught the exploit. I doubt the intention was to "steal" them or use them for criminal motive.
It's entirely possible he didn't even know he had any numbers and perhaps never even saved it to disk.
So... didn't we all have little peak around the internet last week? Are we all in trouble now?