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| Yacht sunken off Sicily calls for protection due to classified data |
| 2024-09-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Divers who are exploring the wreckage of the luxury yacht Bayesian that sank off the coast of Sicily have called on the Italian authorities to ensure the protection of the safes found on the vessel, as they believe that they contain classified information. This was reported on September 21 by the CNN television channel. "Experts have requested increased security measures to protect the vessel over concerns that confidential data locked in its safes could be of interest to foreign governments," the publication says. The vessel is at a depth of 50 m. An official involved in the plans to raise the yacht told reporters on condition of anonymity that the vessel contains two watertight safes containing two highly encrypted hard drives containing highly classified information, including passwords and other sensitive data. Survivors told the prosecutor that Michael Lynch, a British millionaire and founder of computer security company Darktrace who was on the yacht, did not trust cloud services. He always kept his data disks in a secure compartment on the yacht. Initially, there was concern that thieves would try to get to the wreckage of the yacht to steal valuables. Now there are fears that foreign intelligence services will take an interest in the vessel. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the yacht Bayesian was wrecked during a storm. There were 12 passengers and 10 crew members on board. Nine crew members and six passengers managed to escape. A criminal case was opened in connection with the disaster. A total of five bodies were found, including those of Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. |
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