Symantec said on Tuesday that a security breach in 2006 led to the theft of source code for some of its flagship products, backtracking on earlier statements that its network had not been hacked.
The security software maker, which had previously blamed the theft on a third party, acknowledged that hackers had infiltrated its own networks. The hackers obtained 2006-era source code for Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, Norton SystemWorks (Norton Utilities and Norton GoBack) and PCAnywhere, the company said in a statement.
"Upon investigation of the claims made by Anonymous regarding source-code disclosure, Symantec believes that the disclosure was the result of a theft of source code that occurred in 2006," a Symantec representative said in a statement.
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