The Ministry of Defence is no stranger to catastrophically costly blunders – but even by its own standards, the leak of personal data on Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK is astonishing in its scale.
These were ex-soldiers and their families who had helped the British and Americans during the war. In all, some 100,000 names, email addresses and phone numbers were inadvertently released and made their way, at least partially, onto social media.
