Hundreds of MoD data breaches revealed
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More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in the largest covert peacetime evacuation after the MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holl
The former defence secretary says erring on the side of caution was "entirely justified" after the 2022 breach.
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.
After a leak at the Ministry of Defence, officials faced a race to keep up to 100,000 Afghans from the Taliban’s clutches – with two years of court fights and rescue plans projected to cost billions,
Sean Humber, from law firm Leigh Day, said that a data breach of thousands of Afghans’ personal information was ‘catastrophic’.