In January this year, a British soldier serving in Estonia on the Russian border disobeyed military rules on personal electronic devices. The rules for troops serving so close to Russia require that Sim cards are removed from phones, location services are disabled and that secure virtual private networks are used for all communications.
Cpl Daniel Barton-Kennedy left his Sim card in his phone and used local mobile data services to communicate. Very shortly thereafter, his phone was hacked. In this case, the hackers obtained nude photos stored on the phone, and their next course of action was to identify the soldier on social media and extort money from him. He made one payment, and on receiving a further and bigger demand for money, finally confessed his actions to his chain of command.
