Top secret files which sunk with Bayesian yacht raided by MI6 in James Bond style mission: report
A James Bond-esque mission to recover highly sensitive secret files held in safes aboard the sunken super-yacht Bayesian was reportedly carried out by UK intelligence service MI6 before Italian divers could get to them.The top secret documents related to yacht owner Mike Lynch’s Darktrace cybersecurity company, which has contracts with UK, US and Israeli intelligence agencies, according to a report in the Italian press. It is not associated with Autonomy, the company he sold to compluting giant Hewlett Packard for $11 billion in 2011.Sources close to the Italian investigation claimed British MI6 agents removed sensitive computer equipment and data belonging to Lynch — one of seven people killed in the sea tragedy last August — from the shipwreck, before the Italian authorities started to send divers to recover it this week.The pre-emptive action — reportedly unauthorized by Italian authorities — saw the removal of computers, hard drives and encrypted devices from the vessel in a real-life mission reminiscent of Bond, the fictional British super spy.The Bayesian is currently 50 meters (164 feet) below the surface off the coast of Porticello, according to Tiscali, a news site founded by prominent Italian politician Renato Soru, which broke the story.Shipwreck survivors previously told prosecutors that Lynch — a tech tycoon dubbed the British Steve Jobs — “did not trust cloud services” and always kept data drives in a secure compartment of the yacht wherever he sailed.The Bayesian was believed to contain the trove of top-secret documents and confidential data on foreign governments held in the ship’s hull in a series of waterproof safes.Lynch was a key figure in Western intelligence circles who served as an adviser to two British prime ministers on science, technology and cyber security.
Darktrace maintained ties with MI5, MI6 — also known as the Secret Intelligence Service — US, and Israeli intelligence agencies, accroding to Tiscali.I...