MoD breach of Afghans’ data ‘could have posed threat to life in Taliban’s hands’
by Nina Lloyd
Dec 13, 2023
2 minutes
The Ministry of Defence has been fined £350,000 for an “egregious” data breach that exposed the personal information of Afghan nationals seeking to flee to the UK after the Taliban takeover.
Details belonging to 265 people were mistakenly copied in to emails sent by the Government, meaning they could be seen by all recipients, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found.
This could have led to
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