But relatives of Afghans named in the leak told the BBC that they fear for their family still in the country, with one saying efforts by the Taliban to find their named relative intensified following the leak. An MoD spokesperson said: "It's longstanding policy of successive governments to not comment on special forces.

Close to 7,000 Afghan nationals are being relocated to the UK because of a massive data breach by the British military,’ the presenter said. They went on to explain that an email was leaked in 2022 with a spreadsheet containing the personal information of almost 19,