Symantec, one of the world's largest Internet security companies, which feed on protecting users' personal computers from viruses and other malicious attacks, has now proved incapable of protecting its own website. One of Symantec Japanese websites have been hacked by a Romanian hacker called Unu, who made a "blind SQL injection at the site. Unu came in this way to the site databases and could in its sole discretion walked around on the server, which contained everything from passwords to the product keys.

Simple software tool that Pangolin and sqlmap was the only thing needed to implement the offense as only conducted to demonstrate the safety of the company suffers.

Unu have previously made similar attacks on Kaspersky and other sites to just expose their lack of security. Symantec has confirmed the identification of a defect on its side and pcd.symantec.com has been suspended interlocked while researching this problem.

Symantec currently has over 17 000 employees and is among others known for its Norton antivirus software.