Symantec has analyzed it and said that one document dated 28 April 1999 containing the details of the Application Programming Interface has indeed been 'lost, but there is no source code in the document.
The company also found that some of the source code of the two security product, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2 is publicly available through online.
"Symantec can confirm that the segment of the source code used in our two older products the company has been accessed, one of which has been discontinued," said Symantec's party, as reported by Net Security, Saturday (01/07/2012).
"The code is taken, is a long document about four and five years ago, but this does not affect Symantec's Norton products for our consumer customers," he added.
The company also claims that the code was not stolen through a breach of the network, but perhaps at the expense of the network from a third party entity.
Previously reported, a group of hackers called "The Lord of Dharmaraja 'claims to have stolen the source code and documentation from the Symantec server intelligence agency of India. Also in conjunction with the theft of intellectual property from other software companies that have contracts with the government of India.
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