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Events on Monday 7 April 2014 2
1989 – 2014Peaches Geldof (1989-2014)Died 7 April 2014, aged 25Peaches Geldof, English television presenter and journalist, and daughter of musician Bob Geldof, died suddenly at her home in Kent from a heroin overdose. Her death echoed the accidental drug-related death of her mother, Paula Yates, in 2000. She left behind two young sons.
2014Heartbleed security bug disclosedMajor flaw found in widely used OpenSSL encryption softwareSecurity researchers disclosed Heartbleed, a serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library used to secure a large portion of the internet. The bug allowed attackers to read sensitive memory from affected servers, potentially exposing passwords and private keys. It prompted a mass scramble by websites and companies to patch systems and reissue security certificates.