India had signed a $3.5 billion deal in 2005 to build six Scorpene-class submarines, designed by the French company, at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in Mumbai. According to the report, the data tells the submarine crew where on the boat they can speak safely to avoid detection by the enemy. Also read: Will probe leak, says DCNS“Multiple and independent controls exist within DCNS to prevent unauthorised access to data and all data movements are encrypted and recorded. In the case of India, where a DCNS design is built by a local company, DCNS is the provider and not the controller of technical data,” the company said. French company DCNS had won the bid to design the new fleet of Australian $50 billion submarines.

Source: Indian Express August 24, 2016 09:43 UTC