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Navy is investigating reports that the USS John S. McCain lost steering just before collision with an oil tanker, experts have speculated the possibility of hacking and sabotage as the cause of the incident. The US Navy ordered an investigation into its entire 7th Fleet, based in Japan, after the incident in the Strait of Malacca early Monday morning. Navy Admiral John Richardson clarified, the investigation would include the possibility of cyber intrusion or sabotage. “But review will consider all possibilities,” he said.

The USS McCain was the fourth vessel of the 7th Fleet based in Japan to have been involved in an incident this year.

On June 17, the USS Fitzgerald was badly damaged in a collision off the coast of Japan and seven sailors drowned. Aside from the USS McCain and the USS Fitzgerald incidents, the Navy cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in Tokyo Bay in February. In May, another cruiser, the USS Lake Champlain, hit a South Korean fishing vessel.

The incidents has given rise to speculations that there might be more than human error involved.

“There’s something more than just human error going on because there would have been a lot of humans to be checks and balances,” Jeff Stutzman, an ex-information warfare specialist in the Navy, who now works at a cyber threat intelligence company, told reporters.

"When you are going through the Strait of Malacca, you can't tell me that a Navy destroyer doesn't have a full navigation team going with full lookouts on every wing and extra people on radar," he said.

Itay Glick, the founder of cyber security firm Votiro said the possibility of cyber interference was the first thing that came to his mind when he heard about the incident.