LONDON: A hacker has threatened to release the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software on Tuesday.
The hacker, who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' had earlier released fragments of the source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails.
The hacker claimed that all the data was taken from Indian government servers, The Daily Mail reports.
"This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton AntiVirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough recently posted on Twitter.
According to Fox News, software manufacturer Symantec Corp described the stolen source code as several years old.
A spokesman for the company, Cris Paden, said that Symantec didn't have any other information, 'particularly with regards to any new claims Anonymous is making.'
Last week, a lawsuit was filed against the company in the US, accusing it of encouraging customers to buy their product with scare tactics.
The suit claimed the company issues misleading information about the health of their computers in order to persuade them into buying the software.
Symantic, however, denied the allegations. (ANI)
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