Symantec agrees today to pay $ 50,000 to hackers that claim detaining the source code of some its security products used on the Internet. Sam Thomas, a high ranked Symantec employee is negotiating the deal with Yamatough, one of the hacker to prevent the release of PCAnywhere and Norton Antivirus code. Now, Symantec is looking for proof of deletion of the source code by the hackers after payment. Then Sam Thomas is proposing $2,500 for first three months and after the destruction of the code, Symantec will disburse the balance. The hackers pretend to be part of “Anonymous” group. Symantec has already contacted law enforcement to raise the question of a theft of an intellectual property. As the investigation is still on the way, Symantec is trying to prevent hacker for a catastrophic disclosure of the code. Symantec and hackers cannot agree on a common way of payment and hackers are treating to release the source code to the public.
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