French Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle – U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Bela Chambers/ Wiki Commons
Have they learned nothing?
From late 2024-early 2025, we have been reporting here on TGP about the danger of utilizing the fitness app Strava, and how this technology was being used by bad players to unveil sensitive military data by forces in the west.
Strava fitness app has security issues that have long been reported on.
As you can read in: Popular Fitness App Strava, Used by Secret Service Agents, May Expose Location of Trump, Biden and Macron in Glaring Security Breach: Le Monde; and Negligent French Sailors Leaked Position and Patrol Schedule of Nuclear Submarines by Using Fitness App Strava
Now, more than a year later, the reports arise again, as a French sailor is said to have inadvertently revealed the location of an aircraft carrier by simply ‘recording a workout on his smartwatch’.
NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck
[@lemondefr] pic.twitter.com/FuoKMAs06w
— Politics Global (@PolitlcsGlobal) March 19, 2026
The Telegraph reported:
“The sailor was running on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier as it headed for the eastern Mediterranean Sea amid the growing conflict between the US and Iran on March 13.
He recorded the 4.3-mile, 35-minute exercise on his smartwatch, which was uploaded to his public account on the fitness app Strava, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Thursday.”
Location of a French nuclear submarine was also compromised back in early 2025.
The Charles de Gaulle is the French navy’s flagship, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in operation outside the US military.
Macron gave a speech aboard the carrier, brought from exercises in the North Atlantic.
“’France is there to protect its own, to be at the side of its allies and friends who are being hit’, he said, explaining why he had asked his navy to carry out the maneuver. ‘Your presence today demonstrates the power of France, a balancing power, one of peace’, he added.
While the presence of the carrier in the region was ‘no secret’, Le Monde noted, the sailor had ‘revealed, almost in real time, [the ship’s] exact location’.”
A French military officer accidentally revealed their aircraft carrier’s hidden location with a morning jog.
The seaman left running app Strava on and went for a jog, tracing the real-time location of the ship. pic.twitter.com/BZr3bq8L88
— Pubity (@pubity) March 19, 2026
Read more:
Strava Security Breach Scandal: NATO Soldiers in Poland Expose Sensitive Data by Negligent Usage of Fitness App
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