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Details of more than 100 British officials were in the data, which may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.
The former minister shared that there was a "palpable and justified" anger within Government towards the MoD following the catastrophic breach.
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
Sean Humber, from law firm Leigh Day, said that a data breach of thousands of Afghans’ personal information was ‘catastrophic’.
Former Armed Forces minister James Heappey has shared the "gut-wrenching" moment he learned of the Afghan data leak, admitting the previous government "let the country down badly" in a long apology.
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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,
Revealed: Elite troops who fought alongside UK troops were put at risk of danger after personal data was shared in catastrophic breach
Penny Mordaunt has said the person behind the MoD data breach should lose their job to show that the incident was "wrong".