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Personal details of UK special forces and spies were included in Afghan data breach
Details of more than 100 British officials were in the data, which may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
UK data leak during Afghan evacuation: Spies, MPs identified in breach; two-year media gag lifted
More than 100 British officials, including MI6 spies, SAS soldiers, MPs and government ministers, were among those exposed in a major data breach linked to Afghan evacuation efforts, The Independent ...
Catastrophic MoD data breach that put up to 100,000 lives at risk finally revealed as superinjunction lifted
More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in largest covert peacetime evacuation after MoD put them in danger ...
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Former Armed Forces minister James Heappey says learning of Afghan data breach was ‘gut-wrenching’ in long apology
Former Armed Forces minister James Heappey has shared the "gut-wrenching" moment he learned of the Afghan data leak, ...
Inside the £7bn secret scramble to save lives after MoD data breach
The Ministry of Defence used a super-injunction to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans ...
‘We failed those who protected us’: Independent readers react to UK’s ‘shameful’ MoD data breach
Our community has reacted with anger, disbelief and deep concern to revelations that a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data ...
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The person responsible for the MoD data breach should lose their job, Penny Mordaunt tells LBC
Penny Mordaunt has said the person behind the MoD data breach should lose their job to show that the incident was "wrong".