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MoD to ‘robustly defend’ compensation claims from Afghans in data breach case
- Thousands of Afghans trying to escape the Taliban will be denied compensation due to an accidental data leak, as stated by the Ministry of Defence.
- The Ministry of Defence announced it will 'robustly defend' against expected legal action for damages related to the leak.
- Several hundred potential claimants are represented by a Manchester law firm, anticipating hundreds of data protection claims.
- An MoD spokesman described the data incident in February 2022 as 'an unacceptable error.
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Deadly UK-Taliban leak is a warning to the US
On July 15, the Daily Mail reported on a data leak from the United Kingdom that forced the British Ministry of Defense to carry out a 23-month cover-up of a £6 billion, or $8.1 billion, “smuggling” operation to bring tens of thousands of Afghans into the country. In February 2022, a British soldier sent a list to a contact in Afghanistan that contained information for 33,000 Afghans deemed ineligible for protection in the U.K. under the Afghan R…
Michael Portillo gives brutal verdict on Afghan data breach as fresh details emerge: ‘Absolute shambles’
Former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo has delivered a damning verdict on the Government's management of a major data security failure involving Afghan nationals who assisted British forces
A flight of data from Afghan citizens by the British Ministry of Defence caused alarms of execution in 2023. The realisation process was activated and 4,500 Afghans were already running into the United Kingdom.
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