NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force personnel and their families have been asked to desist from using Chinese 'Xiaomi Redmi 1s' phones as these are believed to be transferring data to their servers in China and could be a security risk.
"F-secure, a leading security solution firm, recently carried out a test of Xiaomi Redmi 1s, and found that the phone was forwarding carrier name, phone number, IMEI plus numbers from address book and text messages back to Beijing," says an advisory issued by the IAF to its personnel.
The IAF note, issued some weeks back, has been prepared by the intelligence unit based on the information from Indian Computer Emergency Response Team.