MoD, Afghan and data breach
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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.
The revelation of a major data leak and subsequent relocation of thousands of Afghans to the UK has raised serious questions.
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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,
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.
Penny Mordaunt has said the person behind the MoD data breach should lose their job to show that the incident was "wrong".
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