Taliban used discarded UK kit to track down Afghans who worked with west, inquiry hears

MPs are investigating the Tory government’s handling of a leak of personal details of almost 19,000 Afghans who had asked to come to UK to flee the Taliban. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

The UK left behind sensitive technology allowing the Taliban to track down Afghans who worked with western forces, a whistleblower has told the Afghan leak inquiry.

The woman, known as Person A, said Afghans affected by the data leak were told to move homes and change their phone numbers to protect themselves from the Taliban because it had the resources to track them down.