Security firm Symantec was attacked by a hacker which was bought to light by Guardian Australia which has seen some of the data extracted by hackers. This comprises not only passwords, but what is thought to be a list of Symantec clients including government agencies. Symantec says that it did not go public about the incident because it came to the conclusion that the hacker only attacked a data lab that was not connected to its corporate network. The company says that no sensitive personal data was hosted in or extracted from this demo lab, nor were Symantec’s corporate network, email accounts, products or solutions compromised.