NEW DELHI, July 12 (UPI) -- India's navy is investigating the extent of a cyberattack at its base in Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command.
Naval officials said it was "premature at this stage" to comment on the sensitivity of the compromised data which was discovered at the beginning of the year, a report by The Indian Express newspaper said.
A Naval Board of Inquiry is believed to have indicted at least six mid-level officers breached security protocol that could have led to the cyberattack, The Indian Express report said.
Naval computers were found to be infected with a virus that collected and transmitted confidential files and documents to Chinese IP addresses, although the navy would not confirm if that meant espionage as the reason for the attack.
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