What's up with the Anonymous hackfest?
Hackers apparently linked to the hactivist group Anonymous today kept up a hacking spree to dump data they said they stole from Symantec, VMware, PayPal, Hyundai, and the U.S. Department of Energy and Transportation, among others.
Symantec says it's still "investigating the recent claims made online regarding the security of our networks," and adds that it has found "no evidence that customer information was exposed or impacted," and "will continue to monitor the situation and aggressively investigate these and any related claims." But at least one other security vendor that's looked at the data dumped online says it does seem to be Symantec employee names and password hashes.
"This link shows, with a high degree of confidence, that the attackers were able to penetrate to an internal database of Symantec," said Tal Beery, security researcher at security firm Imperva. "Most likely, the Symantec support content management system database. They had published the contents of one database, which included e-mail addresses, hashed passwords and some phone numbers of Symantec employees."
