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		Tuesday February 7, 2012

EDITOR'S NOTE

Symantec has said it kept a hacker talking while the company contacted law enforcement during an extortion attempt last month.

YamaTough demanded $US50,000 ($A46,683) from Symantec to destroy stolen Symantec source code and make a public statement denying that he stole the data.

The company could not comment further citing an ongoing police investigation.

The hacker told SC he sought only to damage the company and did not want the money.

-Darren

Symantec dobbed in hacker during extortion attempt

by Darren Pauli, February 07 2012

A hacker was kept talking while Symantec contacted law enforcement during an extortion attempt last month.

YamaTough demanded $US50,000 ($A46,683) from Symantec to destroy stolen Symantec source code and make a public statement denying that he/she stole the data.

A string of emails posted to pastebin by the hacker revealed the exchange between a purported Symantec employee and YamaTough.

Symantec's US headquarters said the exchange was part of a coordinated investigation with law enforcement to catch...

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