Life lies in movement? Previously, there was a story about US soldiers wearing smart watches, running and then sharing their running records to leak the location of military bases. Unexpectedly, a similar incident would see a sequel: a young naval officer on France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier shared his running records, and then allowed the outside world to pinpoint the location of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
The background of this incident is that the Charles de Gaulle nuclear-powered aircraft carrier formation is being deployed to the eastern Mediterranean (close to Iran) to support the US offensive in the Middle East. Such deployments were originally public information, but the real-time and accurate aircraft carrier coordinates are sensitive military secrets.
A reporter from the well-known French media "Le Monde" accurately identified the position of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier (at that time on March 13, 2026) through cross-validation of public Strava (sports recording and sharing application) records combined with satellite images.
The person who shared the exercise record was a young naval officer in the French Navy. This naval officer was running on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and then shared the exercise record publicly through Strava, which allowed the outside world to identify the location of the aircraft carrier through the exercise record.
However, judging from the current situation, there is a high probability that this naval officer set up automatic sharing of Strava exercise records on a daily basis, but he did not expect that he was already on the aircraft carrier while on a mission, so he continued to exercise and continue to share his exercise records.
The General Staff of the French Armed Forces has also acknowledged this matter. The agency stated that similar behavior violated the regulations on the use of classified equipment, so the naval officer may be punished by military discipline in the future.