According to email transcripts posted to Pastebin yesterday , and confirmed by the company , a group of hackers seek to gouge $ 50,000 from Symantec in telephone exchange for not let go its steal PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus source code .
The e-mail between Symantec employee Sam Thomas and the hacker(s ) Yamatough , began in January . Symantec confirmed in a statement that it had contacted law enforcement after affirm the theft of the computer code and that the e-mail exchange was , in fact , part of a criminal probe .
The conversation lasted weeks before finally breaking down — the two spar over validation that Yamatough really did posses the codification , assurances that it would be destroyed after the dealings was complete , and discussion on how to actually move the money to Liberty Reserve , a Costa Rican payment processing company . The e-mail screw thread ended yesterday with Yamatough jeopardize to forthwith release the code :
Since no codification yet being released and our email communicating was n’t also unloosen we give you 10 minutes to adjudicate which fashion you go after that two of your codes vanish to the lunation PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus summate 2350 MB in size of it ( rar ) 10 minutes if no answer from you we consider it a START this time we ’ve made mirror so it will be heavy for you to get free of it .
Thomson requested more time to abide by with the demands . Yamatough has since foretell that it will delay the release . [ PastebinviaCNet ]
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