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Anti-virus company Symantec has agreed to pay an amount of 50,000 dollars for maintaining the confidentiality of the source of stolen software.
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However, the hacker group, who stole the source code of its flagship software product yet published data on the software. In the letter, whose text was published in the resource Pastebin.com, says that a Symantec employee Sam Thomas negotiated the payment of money from a hacker known by the nickname Yamatogh, "to prevent the release of" software codes Norton Antivirus, and PCAnywhere. text of the letter is available at at pastebin.com/GJEKf1T9 In a letter to Thomas openly states that Symantec is ready to pay the money, but in exchange for this guarantee requires nepublikatsii data. "We will pay you 2,500 dollars over the next three months. After this time, we will need proof of the complete destruction of codes and then you will be paid the remainder," the letter said. The press service of Symantec confirmed that led the financial negotiations with the hackers, but the company has its own vision of the situation: "In January, the unknown, who identified himself as part of the group Anonymous, tried to extort money from Symantec in exchange for the abandonment of a public offering of stolen source code Symantec. company conducted its own investigation into the incident and, given the fact that the financial blackmail and extortion, has contacted law enforcement authorities. investigation of the incident still in progress and we can not disclose further details. " Nevertheless, several hacker groups claim that the situation was reversed and that Symantec offered a ransom. According to the group blogs to Twitter AntiSec they initially were not willing to cooperate and if it wanted to obtain financial gain, without any additional announcements on anonymous sources put online auctions. In addition, the hackers claim that the first contacts with Symantec were sure that the antivirus company is trying to track them and send the police in obtaining the money, so these opportunities and were not considered. It is interesting to note that at the same site Pastebin hacker group posted a publication "Say Hi to FBI ", in which she says she is aware of the contact Symantec c the FBI in an attempt to identify the people responsible for stealing the source code.Recall that the January 17 Symantec has officially recognized the theft of its source, and their publication on the Internet. It was reported that unknown hackers have the source code of the software Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, Norton Utilities, Norton GoBack, and pcAnywhere.
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