‘The most expensive email ever’: Idiot Brit screws up and sends email that costs the government $8 billion This is a true incompetence all-timer. We Got This Covered · Jul 16, 2025
No automatic right to resettlement for Afghans in data leak, says Healey Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunction The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2025
Healey: Accountability starts now over Afghan data leak and injunction Thousands of people have been relocated to the UK as part of a secret scheme set up after data on Afghans who supported British forces was leaked. Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025
Keir Starmer says Tory ministers have 'questions' to answer on data leak and secret route to UK for Afghans At Prime Minister’s Questions, he sought to blame the previous Government for the data blunder which was kept quiet with a super injunction Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025
Inside the two-year battle to reveal MoD data breach that put 100,000 lives at risk The Ministry of Defence used a super-injunction to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban. The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2025
OPINION - Afghan data breach is a shameful blight on our country - and a symptom of broader systemic failures The government data breach of about 18,900 Afghans who had worked for Britain and British interests, and the attempts to conceal much of the detail under a legal superinjunction, are bewildering, convoluted and shameful. In all, the lives of some 80,000 Afghans and their families may have been put at… Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2025
'No apology': Ben Wallace denies cover-up over Afghans data leak that 'put thousands in peril' Ex-Tory defence secretary says the decision to apply for the gagging order was ‘not, as some are childishly trying to claim, a cover-up’ Evening Standard · Jul 15, 2025
Ben Wallace takes ‘complete responsibility’ for Afghan leak — but refuses to apologise for superinjunction Sir Ben was defence secretary when a spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghans was released ‘in error’ in February 2022 The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025
Former defence secretary makes ‘no apology’ for Afghan injunction Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up in the wake of the breach. Evening Standard · Jul 15, 2025
MoD official responsible for catastrophic Afghan data breach that cost billions still works for government Email blunder potentially put up to 100,000 people at risk and triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025
Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret scheme after data leak Conservative government used superinjuction to hide error that put Afghans at risk and led to £2bn mitigation scheme The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025
‘The worst day of all time’: Afghans speak of safety fears after UK data leak Law firm representing thousands says some already killed and others in hiding as a result of government ‘blunder’ The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025
Shock as 20,000 Afghans Set to Arrive in Britain on Taxpayer-Funded Flights: What Is 'Operation Rubicon'? Court documents reveal a covert UK scheme to fly in 20,000 Afghans after a data breach. Here's the truth behind Operation Rubicon and what it could cost taxpayers. International Business Times UK · Jul 15, 2025
UK’s cavalier attitude leaves Afghans facing yet more fear and uncertainty Leaked details are just another example of how the UK let down Afghans who believed in what Britain promised their country The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 The disastrous MoD data leak should have been cleared up – not covered up THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The leak itself placed all the Afghans listed in jeopardy. The superinjunction threatened to make the leak even worse, by giving the impression that all of those on it were – in the eyes of the Taliban – traitors
The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025 What we know about the secret Afghan relocation scheme Accidental data breach that put Afghans at risk and led to covert resettlement scheme was subject to superinjuction
The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025 John Healey and MPs bask in nauseating non-mea culpas over secret Afghan relocation scheme Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response Route
The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025 Afghans have been betrayed yet again by this shocking UK data leak – and many don’t even know if they’re affected This isn’t the first time Afghans brave enough to work against the Taliban have been let down by Britain, but it might be the most shameful, says writer Diane Taylor
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 Not our finest hour: When Britain’s allies put their lives on the line, we abandoned them – and covered it up COMMENT: The British believe their word is their bond – but no one who’s dealt with us agrees, least of all in Afghanistan, world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes
International Business Times · Jul 15, 2025 Thousands Of Afghans Win UK Asylum After Huge Data Breach Thousands of Afghans who worked with the UK and their families were brought to Britain in a secret programme after a 2022 data breach put their lives at risk, the British government revealed on Tuesday.
Evening Standard · Jul 15, 2025 Defence Secretary offers ‘sincere apology’ for leak of Afghans’ personal data Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge also apologised on behalf of the former Conservative government, who were in power when the leak occurred.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025 Afghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the Afghanistan Response Route? We would like to hear from Afghans who have arrived or are due to arrive in the UK under the Afghanistan Response Route
Euronews · Jul 15, 2025 UK secretly resettled thousands of Afghans after major data leak raised safety fears The details of nearly 19,000 Afghans who had applied to move to the UK after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan were released in error in 2022.
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 The UK says thousands of Afghans have been brought to Britain under a secret resettlement program Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 Defence secretary issues apology over MoD data breach which put thousands of lives at risk Defence secretary John Healey has offered a "sincere apology” following a data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban.