Two watertight safes onboard the yacht may have super-encrypted hard drives that contain classified information like passcodes, sources told CNN.

They suspect that the 56-meter yacht, named the Bayesian, may hold highly sensitive data linked to various Western intelligence services. This suspicion arises from Lynch's associations with British,

Autopsies have been carried out on a couple who drowned on Mike Lynch’s superyacht when it sank off the coast of Sicily last month. Seven lives were lost when the British-flagged boat, called the Bayesian, went down in a freak storm while anchored near the Sicilian capital of Palermo on 19 August.

SPECIALIST security is set to guard Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht over fears rogue governments may want to plunder it for sensitive secrets. Italian prosecutors reckon there could be classified

Lynch, who had connections with various intelligence services through his companies—including the cybersecurity firm Darktrace, which was recently sold to a private equity firm—had previously advised British prime ministers on technology and cybersecurity matters.

Divers searching British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht off Sicily have found safes holding potentially sensitive intelligence data, sources have claimed.Local law enforcement reportedly now fear that foreign governments such as China and Russia may become interested in the boat - and have asked for extra surveillance to protect it,