IAF officer held for 'leaking sensitive data'
An Indian Air Force Wing Commander has been arrested over allegations that he passed sensitive defence information to a Pakistani intelligence operative. On the account given, the approach began on social media, where the officer was drawn into a manufactured relationship before any information changed hands. The allegations are untested.
Two details are worth carrying away. The arrest was made in May and became public only now. That gap is ordinary in counter-intelligence work rather than a lapse: announcing a detection early can tell a network it has been found, and the value of a case often lies in what it reveals before anyone is told about it.
The second is the method. Nothing was hacked. A person who already held legitimate access was persuaded to use it. For the exam this is the whole lesson, because espionage of this kind is habitually written up as a technology failure when the failure is human — in vetting, in whether an officer can report an approach without ending his own career, and in whether access follows need-to-know rather than rank.
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