The Ministry of Defence became aware of the breach more than a year later, when excerpts of the spreadsheet were anonymously ...

British spies and special forces soldiers were among the tens of thousands of people potentially put at risk by the catastrophic Afghan data leak, The Independent understands. The breach, made by a ...

Details of more than 100 British officials were in the data, which may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.

So that's why ministers wanted to hush it up: secret database the Government lost contained details of more than 100 British operatives as well as the 18,800 Afghans ...

Defence sources have said that details of MI6 spies, SAS and special forces personnel were included in the spreadsheet.