MoD, Afghan and data breach
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L awyers say they expect Afghans who supported British forces and had their details exposed in a catastrophic Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breach to receive compensation "in the
Over 18,000 Afghan citizens eligible to relocate to the UK under a government programme to protect them from the Taliban were put at risk in a heretofore unreportable data breach.
More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in largest covert peacetime evacuation after MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancro
The Ministry of Defence used a super-injunction to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban. The breach, which can now be reported on following the lifting of the order on Tuesday (15 July),
Penny Mordaunt has said the person behind the MoD data breach should lose their job to show that the incident was "wrong".
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Our community has reacted with anger, disbelief and deep concern to revelations that a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach, which put tens of thousands of Afghans at risk, was kept hidden under a superinjunction for nearly two years,