54 h. ago Afghan data breach was 'farrago of errors and missteps' that could happen again, say MPs

Ministers met covertly to sign off £7billion including the secret Afghan airlift to rescue people imperilled by the British data leak - but MPs now say the data disaster could easily happen again.

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54 h. ago Afghans still at risk from fresh data breach as it’s revealed MoD hasn’t fixed security flaws

No oversight of huge amounts of public money spent after MoD kept spending watchdog in the dark about secret Afghan evacuation scheme

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1 week ago What I told MPs about the government’s catastrophic Afghan data leak

For nearly two years, media organisations - including The Independent - knew about an MoD data breach that had exposed the details of 18,700 Afghan applicants to UK resettlement schemes but were prevented from reporting what had happened due to an unprecedented superinjunction. Home affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft was called to give evidence at an MP-led inquiry into the catastrophic error

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1 week ago Watch live: The Independent’s Holly Bancroft give evidence to MPs on Afghan data breach

Watch live as The Independent Social Affairs Correspondent Holly Bancroft gives evidence to a Defence Committee meeting over the Afghan data breach and super-injunction on Tuesday (4 November).

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2 w. ago Confidential information leaked after MoD official left laptop open on train

Exclusive: Details of 49 data breaches at MoD include personal data accidentally sent to a civil service sports club with 140,000 members

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2 w. ago Revealed: Afghan data breach after MoD official left laptop open on train

Exclusive: Details of 49 data breaches at MoD include personal data accidentally sent to a civil service sports club with 140,000 members

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2 w. ago ‘The novelty will wear off’: Labour hopes publicity will be Farage’s downfall

Government still struggling to win the agenda from Reform, leaving planners trusting voters will sour on what they seeAfter Nigel Farage dominated the summer headlines with weekly press conferences while his rivals were on their sunloungers and the news agenda was light, Labour strategists swore they would never let it happen again.Labour MPs had returned to Westminster after recess, fuming that the government had vacated the public arena and allowed Reform UK to shape the narrative, to the extent that the mood hardened against Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘A few unrecorded meetings and a handshake’: Damning verdict of probe into major Afghan data breach

Top secret information ‘bandied about like confetti' during catastrophic Ministry of Defence leak, MP claims

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