Symantec offered hackers $50k to delete stolen code in alleged "sting"

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But the point of contact for the hacker group involved in the code exposure claimed in an e-mail conversation with Reuters that they never intended to take money from Symantec, and that the negotiations were a scam in themselves to embarrass the company. And according to the transcript, it was Symantec that set the price of the hackers' destruction of the code, along with a demand that the hackers publish a statement saying that   More...