Hundreds of MoD data breaches revealed
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A data breach which may have put up to 100,000 people at risk of death or serious harm from the Taliban can now be reported more than three years after it took place. Here the PA news agency looks at the timeline of events in the data breach and how governments responded to it:
Details of more than 100 British officials were in the data, which may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
A former British Paratrooper who spent more than a decade serving in numerous operations across Afghanistan has warned that the data breach will pose a security threat for years to come.
A major data breach in the UK involving over 100 British nationals, including spies, has led to the relocation of thousands of Afghans due to security concerns. The breach, initially undisclosed due to a court-imposed injunction,
The former defence secretary says erring on the side of caution was "entirely justified" after the 2022 breach.
Britain set up a secret scheme to bring 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 reprisals from the Taliban after their return to power.
The personal information of more than 100 British officials, including spies from the foreign intelligence agency MI6 and special forces such as the SAS (Special Air Service), was included in the data leak,
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