Data breach exposing UK-allied Afghans to Taliban reprisals ‘completely foreseeable’

The UK defence committee has found a data breach which left UK-aligned Afghans exposed to the Taliban was “completely foreseeable”. The 2023 breach, kept secret until 2025 due to a court order, meant that a spreadsheet containing personal details of 18, 500 Afghans was made public. Afghan resettlement programme The Tal

The Commons' Defence Committee says in a report that the MoD used secrecy as a "shield" against proper expertise.

Soldier accidentally disclosed the personal details of 25,000 people who had applied for relocation to Britain

THE Afghan data breach was a “foreseeable” failure by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and one of 19 reported in a 19-month period, a parliamentary inquiry has revealed. The personal data of more than 18,000 Afghans seeking resettlement after fighting the Taliban alongside British forces was accidentally leaked when a mem