NortonLifelock Users’ Info Stolen – It’s Not Our Fault Says NortonLifeLock

By | January 15, 2023

 

 

NortonLifelock Users’ Info Stolen – It’s Not Our Fault Says NortonLifeLock

See? We Told You So! 

We’ve written several articles and answers to questions about NortonLifelock and its absurd promises to keep you safe from everything including identity theft.  Their million-dollar guarantee aside, no one and nothing can promise to keep you safe 100% of the time. Not only are we ever skeptical of NortonLifelocks’ promises, but NortonLifelocks’ pricing policy gives no indication of how much higher the already high first-year subscription price will go up in the second year or subsequent years.

Here’s an example. To get the “$1,000.000 NortonLifelock guarantee”, you will need to spend $19.99 a month/$ 239.88 a year (if you pay a lump sum annually), and $23.99 if you pay monthly ($287.88) for the first year. The page does not indicate what the second year will cost.  Now if you watch the TV ad, they don’t mention that only the highest-prices plans include the “million-dollar” guarantee. It’s probably somewhere in the tiny print at the bottom of the screen they know you’re never going to read.

But wait there’s more… the TV ad makes it sound like you will get a VPN service with all their plans, but that’s not true either. You will have to pay extra to get the VPN service. So, if you want the “million-dollar” guarantee and the VPN service, you’ll pay $24.99 per month (299.88) the FIRST year if you pay annually or $29.99  per month (359.88) the FIRST year if you pay monthly.

Despite their far-fetched claims and guarantees, their reputation (which for some reason remains favorable), NortonLifelock users’ passwords, and usernames were stolen.

And not only were they stolen but…

“In accessing your account with your username, and password, the unauthorized third party may have viewed your first name, last name, phone number, and mailing address — NortonLifeLock

Well, NortonLifeLock says, hey it’s not our fault all these password/username combinations were stolen! No way! It was “some” third party’s fault.

Wink.Wink.

Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks.

According to a letter sample shared with the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, the attacks did not result from a breach on the company but from account compromise on other platforms.

‘Our own systems were not compromised. However, we strongly believe that an unauthorized third party knows and has utilized your username and password for your account,’ NortonLifeLock said… (Source)

This is the new way of doing business I guess. If something goes well you hold a press conference and take all the credit. If something goes wrong you bring in the spin doctors and blame someone else.

Regardless of NortonLifelocks’ posturing and maneuvering, there’s no way we’re buying NortonLifelocks’ claim of innocence, what about you?

Here’s more from Bleeping Computer. We hope you’ll take the time to read it and draw your own conclusions. 

2 thoughts on “NortonLifelock Users’ Info Stolen – It’s Not Our Fault Says NortonLifeLock

  1. SB

    Always had a hate on for Norton, and their LifeLock comes just this short of a full-on scam so when I read this I could not help but laugh uncontrollably. I feel bad for the people who got sucked in by Norton’s inexplicably good reputation, but Norton getting hacked and then denying culpability is just hilarious to me.

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  2. Robin Arter

    I used to use Norton’s virus protection….. until my computer got a virus and I had to take it to a computer repair guy to remove it! I use Windows Defender now….. no problems!

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