The UK secretly relocated thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in one of the country's worst ever data breaches, putting them at risk of Taliban retaliation. The operation cost around $2.7 billion and remained under a court-imposed superinjunction until recently...

The leak occurred in 2022 and disclosed the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghan people, the UK Defence Secretary said on Tuesday.

July 15 (UPI) -- Thousands of Afghans were relocated to Britain in a secret government scheme after a data breach of nearly 100,000 refugee applicants via Afghanistan following the Taliban's 2021 seizure of power.

The British government began secretly relocating thousands of Afghans who worked with British forces after a data leak threatened to reveal their identities.

Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the UK after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them, the British government revealed Tuesday. The government said it is closing the program, which a rare court…

The government spent nearly two years using an unprecedented superinjunction to prevent the public from learning about a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of Afghans who had worked with UK forces.

Thousands of Afghans who worked for the British government were brought to the United Kingdom along with their families under a secret relocation scheme, after a major data breach in 2022 put them at…

The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner analyses the leak of Afghan citizens' data and the fallout.

A governmental gagging order meant that a data breach that put up to 100,000 people at risk from the Taliban was kept from the public eye

Riots are feared to break out across Britain after it emerged that the government prevented the public from learning about an Afghan resettlement scheme set up following a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach.

Thousands of Afghans including many who worked with British forces have been resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data raised fears that the Taliban could target them.

A dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy was released ‘in error’ in 2022.

Penny Mordaunt has said the person behind the MoD data breach should lose their job to show that the incident was "wrong".

The Government could face "strong claims for substantial compensation" from those affected by a massive data breach of the personal information of Afghans who supported British forces, a lawyer has said.

Kemi Badenoch claimed the catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach proves ministers should have the power to sack civil servants who "know they can do whatever they like".

Luke Pollard, Minister of the Armed Forces, told LBC’s Andrew Marr that the Taliban 'has a lot of information already’ about Afghans involved in the data leak, but that they are at ‘no increased risk’ of retaliation.

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