Symantec
has for several days been negotiating with the hackers to avoid getting
source PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus in the Network. According
to the source, the hacker under the alias Yamatough, posing as one of
the activists of Anonymous, require developers the amount of $ 50,000. Responsible for the talks was the alleged employee Symantec Sam Thomas (Sam Thomas), in another version - an FBI agent. Early communication company agreed to comply with the hacker, but has put forward its own terms: "We'll pay you $ 50,000. But we must be sure that after the payment you publish the code. We will pay $ 2,500 per month for the first three months, starting next week. After this time you will have to convince us that the code is destroyed, and only then we will pay you the balance. We hope that the deal is fair. " Symantec
representative confirmed that, during the negotiations on the part of
the hacker was the obvious extortion: "In January, a group of hackers
calling themselves part of an international network of Anonymous, trying
to get money from Symantec, in exchange for the public offering of the
stolen code, which, according to their statement were available to criminals. The
company conducted an internal investigation into the incident and
contacted the police, report the facts of extortion and theft of
intellectual property. Relationship with a person who was trying to get money from Symantec, was part of the FBI investigation. "
However,
after several weeks of discussions on the evidence of the code and the
transfer of money, negotiations failed and the transaction was not
completed.
In response, the hackers posted on Twitter about the fact that soon codes appear in Symantec Network. The
company decided not to tempt fate and invited hackers as a sign of good
will transfer $ 1,000 through PayPal, but Yamatough refused, saying
that he agreed only on the amount specified in the ultimatum. The
company did not immediately respond to this comment and patience hacker
snapped: "Since the code we have not yet published, and our e-mails had
not been traced, we give you 10 minutes to make the final decision. If we do not get a response, we perceive it as a rejection of the deal. " Symantec
tried to tell the hacker that the company needed a little time to
determine the solution, but the actions Yamatough not long in coming:
February 6, at 21:15 file named "Symantec's pcAnywhere Leaked Source
Code", weighing 1.2 GB was posted on the Pirate Bay.
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