Chinese hackers penetrate Indian Navy’s computer

In what may be construed as a serious breach of India’s cyber security, Chinese hackers had penetrated computers at Eastern Naval Command to access strategic information, though the nature and sensitivity of hacked information is not known at the moment.

The hacking incident happened almost seven months ago, following which the Navy instituted a Board of Inquiry (BoI) against some officers whose computers were bugged and compromised.

The Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam is one of the strategically important naval establishment that harbours indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant — slated to be inducted in the service next year — and Russian-origin nuclear submarine INS Chakra which joined the service earlier this year.

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