A shocking data breach has left thousands of Afghans who aided UK forces in grave danger, with a potential £1 billion compensation bill looming over the MoD.

Law firms have begun signing up claimants to cash in on the Afghan data breach, with each one could up to £250,000 in compensation.

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Sean Humber, from law firm Leigh Day, said that a data breach of thousands of Afghans’ personal information was ‘catastrophic’.

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

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,