Clasified Scorpene submarines data leaked, Defence Minister Parrikar seeks report

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New Delhi/ 24 August 2016.  Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought a report from the Navy Chief on the leakage of sensitive documents detailing the technical and stealth capabilities of India's Scoprene submarines designed by French shipbuilder DCNS. 

According to Australia's 'The Australian' newspaper, the 22,400 pages leaked DCNS data details the secret stealth capabilities of six new Indian submarines, including what frequencies they gather intelligence at, what levels of noise they make at various speeds and their diving depths, range and endurance all sensitive information that is highly classified.

"I have asked the Navy chief to study the entire issue about what has been leaked, what is there about us and to what extent. It came to my knowledge at about 12 AM. What I understand is there is a hacking. So we will find out all this," Defence Minister told reporters here.

Parrikar said he does not suspect the leak to be 100 per cent since a lot of final integration lies with India. He said a clear picture will emerge in a couple of days.

In a statement, the Navy said, "A case of suspected leak of documents related to Scorpene submarines has been reported by a foreign media house. The available information is being examined at Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy) and an analysis is being carried out by the concerned specialists.”

"It appears that the source of leak is from overseas and not in India," the Navy said.

The leak has created fear in Australia about the future security of top-secret data on its navy's future fleet, the Australian media reported as the French company had won the bid to design Australia's new Australian Dollar 50 billion submarine fleet. (With PTI inputs)