Bayesian Shipwreck: Lynch’s hard drives target – “They may fall into the wrong hands”

Additional security around the luxury Bayesian in Italy that sank off Palermo last August, resulting in eight people dying horribly, including British technology tycoon Mike Lynch, requested the Italian authorities. The request for increased security measures around the area where the wreck occurred comes after fears expressed that sensitive data locked in the yacht’s safes “may interest foreign governments”, as CNN reports, which invokes anonymous sources. The Italian prosecutors who prosecuted the captain of the chamber for manslaughter and causing a wreck from negligence, estimate that extremely sensitive data may be found on the vessel associated with certain western intelligence services. In this context, they believe that aspiring people may attempt to reach the wreck in order to plunder expensive jewelry and other valuable items, including information data. In fact, according to CNN, they always express concern that two over-encrypted hard drives in the watertight safes of the sunk yacht “could fall into the wrong hands”. In particular, the Italian authorities confirmed that Leeds’ hard drives could be of interest to foreign governments, including Russia and China, and requested that the vessel be kept closely with surface and underwater surveillance. “An official request for additional safety of the wreck was accepted until it could be lifted,” Francesco Ventuto of the civil protection agency of Sicily told CNN. Lynch is believed to have had connections with British, American and other intelligence agencies and had sold Darktrace, an artificial intelligence company in cyberspace he founded, to American billionaire Orlando Bravo, co-founder and CEO of Thoma Bravo based in Chicago, for $5 billion.