VMware Confirms Source Code Leak

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @11:00AM from the like-a-sieve dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes "Purloined data and documents, including source code belonging to the U.S. software firm VMWare, continue to bubble up from the networks of a variety of compromised Chinese firms, according to 'Hardcore Charlie,' an anonymous hacker who has claimed responsibility for the hacks. In a statement on the VMWare Web site, Ian Mulholland, Director of VMWare's Security Response Center, said the company acknowledged that a source code file for its ESX product had been leaked online. In a phone interview, Mulholland told Threatpost the company was monitoring the situation and conducting an investigation into the incident."

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Re:Wait, Vmware code stolen from China Military by bertok · 2012-04-25 12:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Who modded this informative?
VMware has mostly proprietary products. What little open source they have is there only because they are forced to by their use of Linux in ESX.
All of their core products are completely closed source, and released as binary only.
They are about as open source as Microsoft.