The MoD could face a £1billion compensation bill following a massive data breach which revealed details of Afghans who supported UK forces, putting them at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

Our community has reacted with anger, disbelief and deep concern to revelations that a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach, which put tens of thousands of Afghans at risk, was kept hidden under a superinjunction for nearly two years,

Defence and security insiders claim essential data protections for MoD emails were removed before the data leak

Soldiers from two specialist units have faced death and torture by the Taliban after being let down by Britain

More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in largest covert peacetime evacuation after MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancro

News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall has warned that the wide-ranging super injunction used to silence UK media for two years sets a “profoundly dangerous” precedent. Goodall was among the first journalists to become aware of a Government data leak which put thousands of Afghan nationals who had supported the British military at risk.

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