PhotoDetailed plans for stealth submarines built by a French military manufacturer for the Indian navy have been leaked, raising concerns over the company’s digital security just months after it signed a multibillion dollar deal to build submarines for Australia. In all, 22,400 pages detailing “the entire secret combat capability” of six Scorpène-class diesel-electric submarines being built for the Indian navy were leaked to The Australian, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, without identifying its source. The publication said the leak from the French manufacturer DCNS included technical manuals and other sensitive information, including details of the submarines’ secret stealth technology, torpedo-launching systems and its many intelligence-gathering systems. “It looks like a case of hacking,” Manohar Parrikar, the Indian defense minister, told reporters outside an event in New Delhi. DCNS and its French partners beat out intense competition from military manufacturers in Germany and Japan for the contract.

Source: International New York Times August 24, 2016 15:38 UTC