Jubilee Post News & Views
Visakhapatnam, Dec 30
The Indian Navy on Monday have issued an order to ban the use of social media platforms for its personnel’s to avoid any kind of cyber snooping, after seven personnel were arrested for allegedly sharing information to some Pakistani accounts through Facebook was busted on December 20.
The Navy has ordered to ban all smartphones within the area of all bases and on ships and dockyards. Officials have restricted anyone from using smartphones after several navy personnel became target of honey traps run by spies on the social media, and in the process shared several security information’s like pictures of Naval ships and submarines, showing its location to a Pakistani handler causing threat to national security.
According to the Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Department in a joint operation, “Operation Dolphin” associated with Central Intelligence Agencies and Naval Intelligence had arrested seven Naval personnel along with a hawala operator from Vishakhapatnam and Mumbai respectively after they allegedly passed on information of naval basses and submarines.
Seven sailors who were recruited in 2017 had fallen prey to honey traps on Facebook in September 2018. The police arrested three Indian naval sailors from Vishakapatnam, two from Karwar naval base, and two from Mumbai naval base.
The sailors were lured into a relationship on social media where the women were chatting with them were sexual in nature and later blackmailed them of revealing their positions and movement of their warships and submarines. They were also been paid money through hawala operator.
