MH370 Update: JACC Says Aircraft 'Cannot Be In Kazakhstan, Diego Garcia or the Maldives,' Malaysian Authorities Suffered Cyber-attack After the Aircraft Disappeared
The search team for MH370 has continued to focus on the southern Indian Ocean and reject a speculation as well as “a number of sites proposed by conspiracy theorists," according to Wire Update.
In an update from the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), the group stated they will remain focused on southern Indian Ocean.
"Based on a careful analysis of all available evidence, search efforts remain focused on an area in the Southern Ocean defined by the ATSB's Search Strategy Working Group," it said.
Also, the analysis of the performance of the Boeing 777-200ER revealed that the MH370 "would have exhausted its fuel by the seventh arc" and the aircraft might "unlikely" travelled to more than 50 kilometers east or 30 kilometers west of the seventh arc. Thus, give the search time the "westerly and easterly limits of the search area."
Recently, it was reported that some locals on the Maldives island stated that they saw an aircraft the day that the MH370 disappeared.
However, JACC stated: "Theories suggesting the aircraft is located to the north or significantly to the west of Sumatra are not supported by known facts or careful analysis. It is, for this reason, the aircraft cannot be in Kazakhstan, Diego Garcia or the Maldives."
Furthermore, Free Malaysia Today reported that Malaysian authorities suffered a cyber-attack within four days of the disappearance of MH370.
According to Costin Raiu from the technology security firm Kaspersky Lab, Naikon has reportedly launched the attack as soon as the MH370 disappeared to steal information about the search and investigation of the aircraft.
"Following the disappearance of MH370, we noticed a spike in the attack by Naikon," Raiu said. "Its purpose was to get intelligence from the countries which were involved in the search."
The government organizations, such as the navy, civil aviation, and police departments of countries involved in the search, were said to be targeted.
Raiu has reportedly claimed that the group has used "hundreds of thousands of phishing e-mail messages guise either as 'updates' or to seek information on the whereabouts of the MH370 aircraft."
