What is the Heartbleed Bug and Should I be Worried?

If you have been listening to or reading the new today you likely will have heard about the Heartbleed bug that could compromise encrypted communications across the Internet.  It is a vulnerability in some web servers that could allow a hacker to "listen in" on (be able to read) an encrypted internet session.  Many internet session are encrypted especially those that involve financial transactions.

What is most interesting about this bug is that it has been a bug since late 2011 but was only publicly announced today, along with the update that fixes it.

Now here is the good news about this bug........

Our Data Security experts at KFCU have been busy this morning researching our potential exposure to this bug and we are happy to report that none of our systems are affected by this bug.  

We take our member's internet security and safety very seriously and will continue to be diligent in researching and remediating any and all threats to our member's financial transactions and identity.