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Sensitive info stolen at Embassy in Moscow
Sensitive defence information appears to have been stolen from the Indian embassy here by an Italian intelligence agency during the past two years,according to a media report.
Written by Press Trust Of India
Moscow | July 31, 2011 02:48 AM IST
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Sensitive defence information appears to have been stolen from the Indian embassy here by an Italian intelligence agency during the past two years,according to a media report.
If the documents released by international hackers group are to be believed,the Italian cyber police National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection was widely hacking Indian embassys letters with Russian defence firms,the Izvestia daily said.
Anonymous Hackers for AntiSec operation,a global group campaigning against security agencies and governments,on July 26 put online documents allegedly hacked from the Italian cyber police server,which include letters between the embassys Air Wing and a local firm supplying spares for military aircraft.
Izvestia said Italian cyber police had hacked on June 22,2010 Deputy Air Attache D S Shekhavats correspondence with Aviazapchast,a firm specialising in the supply of aviation spares,complaining about delays in the shipment of 15 helicopter engines. A reply from Aviazapchasts representative in India was also hacked by CNAIPIC.
It also accessed correspondence of aircraft engine manufacturer NPO Saturn and Ilyushin Aircraft with the embassy and the Air Headquarters in Delhi.
Indian embassys Counsellor Information Nutan Kapur Mahawar refused to comment.
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