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Symantec one of the largest security company failed to protect their own source code. As reported before a month ago a hacker managed to breach Symantec security and stole their source code.Even though the source code was stolen back in 2006 the case came to light just the previous month. The previous month, a group called Lords of Dharmaraja claimed to have broken into military intelligence servers belonging to the Indian government and obtained source code to Symantec products. These products are PcAnywhere, System Works, Internet Security and Norton GoBack with Utilities. Today the main account associate with the hack @YamaTough claimed that Symantec offered the group 50,000$ in return to keep quiet. The group released all the mails that the security firm sent to them. You can view the whole conversation here pastebin.com/NEYbC2Zw and pastebin.com/NEYbC2Zw Protecting our company and property are our top priorities. We can’t pay you $50,000 at once for the reason...