Luxury shipwrecks are tightly guarded, targeted by Russia and China

Jakarta –

A luxury cruise ship Bay it recently sank in Sicily, Italy and killed 7 people on board, including head of technology British Mike Lynch. Well, the Italian authorities said that there was a request that the wreck be closely guarded.

Italian prosecutors fear thieves targeted the corpse because it contained jewelry and valuables, including possible intelligence data. In particular, there are two encrypted hard disk drives that could be targeted by certain parties.

Italian authorities confirmed that the data on the hard drive could be of interest to countries such as Russia and China, so security was tightened, both underwater and on the surface. “The request was accepted and it was done before the wreckage could be removed,” said Francesco Venuto of the Sicilian civil protection agency.

Survivors reportedly told prosecutors that Lynch relied on cloud services and stored important data on hard drives. Lynch is believed to have links to British, US and other intelligence agencies. He sold Darktrace, the AI ​​cybersecurity company he founded, to US billionaire Orlando Bravo in a USD 5 billion deal earlier this year.

The company, which has its head office in Cambridge, was founded in 2013 by Lynch with Stephen Huxter, a former high-ranking member of the cyber protection team of the British intelligence MI5. Huxter hired Andrew France, a British intelligence veteran, as CEO. Former MI5 chief Jonathan Evans also sits on Darktrace’s board, along with Jim Penrose, a veteran of the US National Security Agency.

Extracted by detikINET from CNN, Monday (23/9/2024) Lynch’s previous company, Autonomy, which he sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2011, was also linked to British government agencies and USA and reportedly had an advanced computer audio system.

Officials involved in the efforts to remove the wreckage said Lynch’s hard drive may have contained sensitive information, including passwords and other potential concerns. has fallen into the wrong hands.

The diver observes the Bayesian with a remote camera before lifting. They are expected to complete an investigation of the wreckage within the next week. To date, none of Lynch’s personal belongings, including computers, jewelry or hard drives, have been recovered from the doomed ship.

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