Inquiry finds MoD Afghan data breach was foreseeable failure
I am in hiding and mostly my family can't live together and we cannot go out and we cannot work," he said. "I feel I have been left alone in the midst of hell."The government had to announce a review in 2024 and since then 884 former members of Afghan special forces, who served alongside UKSF, have since had their rejections overturned. The defence committee report outlined that the "proportion of decisions subsequently overturned demonstrates the seriousness of that failure".The UK government closed Arap to new applications in 2025, but the report said the government had a "special responsibility" to the Afghan special forces it had wrongly rejected.
- ▪I am in hiding and mostly my family can't live together and we cannot go out and we cannot work," he said.
- ▪"I feel I have been left alone in the midst of hell."The government had to announce a review in 2024 and since then 884 former members of Afghan special forces, who served alongside UKSF, have since had their rejections overturned.
- ▪The defence committee report outlined that the "proportion of decisions subsequently overturned demonstrates the seriousness of that failure".The UK government closed Arap to new applications in 2025, but the report said the government had
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Inquiry finds MoD Afghan data breach was foreseeable failureImage caption, Britain set up scheme to bring those thought to be the most in danger to safetyByHenry Moore and Hannah O'GradyPublished12 minutes agoA data breach that exposed personal details of thousands of Afghans applying to come to the UK to flee the Taliban was a "foreseeable" failure, a parliamentary inquiry has found. In a report published on Thursday, the Commons' Defence Committee said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had lacked the expertise to run the UK's Afghan relocation scheme after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and had used secrecy as a "shield" against proper accountability.The breach came to light in August 2023 but an unprecedented super-injunction prevented it from being reported on until July 2025.A MoD…
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