The MoD says it will 'robustly defend' against large compensation claims from Afghans affected by the data breach, and won't ...

The data breach saw details of 18,714 applicants for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme released in 2022.

In one incident last year, the names and bank details of 272,000 staff were breached when one of its systems was hacked ...

Grant Shapps claims he was ‘surprised’ gagging order was in place for ‘so long’ – despite fighting to keep superinjunction in ...

It exposed up to 100,000 Afghans to potential reprisals from the Taliban, cost the UK taxpayer billions and prompted a two-year cover-up through the use of an unprecedented superinjunction. It also ...

Hundreds of UK ministry of defence (MoD) data breaches have been revealed as questions intensify over its ability to keep ...

Thousands of Afghans included on a list of people trying to flee the Taliban are unlikely to receive compensation after their details were accidentally leaked.

The MoD was fined £350,000 for a data breach related to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, which exposed up to 100,000 Afghans and potentially British service personnel to risk.