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MoD to ‘robustly defend’ compensation claims from Afghans in data breach case
The data breach saw details of 18,714 applicants for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme released in 2022.
MoD offered to speed up resettlement case of Afghan who posted data breach names on Facebook
Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the ...
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MoD cyber breach put thousands of Afghan lives at risk
Over 18,000 Afghan citizens eligible to relocate to the UK under a government programme to protect them from the Taliban were ...
Hundreds of MoD data breaches revealed as security questions raised in wake of Afghan data breach
Hundreds of Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breaches have been revealed as questions intensify over its ability to keep ...
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 ...
MoD could face ‘substantial’ compensation claims over data breach, lawyer says
Sean Humber, from law firm Leigh Day, said that a data breach of thousands of Afghans’ personal information was ‘catastrophic ...
The Daily T: ‘Grant Shapps has questions to answer’: Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Afghan MoD data breach
The Government at the time secured a superinjunction to prevent the breach being reported, meaning the £7bn earmarked to address it faced no scrutiny. Jacob Rees-Mogg was a senior MP back then and ...