5 d. ago SAM GREENHILL: This is how the Afghan data breach disaster was uncovered and why I was threatened with jail

The Daily Mail's Sam Greenhill and David Williams were the first journalists to uncover a secret £7 billion government operation to smuggle Afghans into Britain.

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8 d. ago The Daily Mail's excellence in campaigning and investigative journalism is recognised at the Media Freedom Awards

The Daily Mail's Sam Greenhill and David Williams won the Investigation of the Year award. Judges praised the pair for their 'impeccable contacts' and 'dogged determination'

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8 d. 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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8 d. 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 Scientists uncover shocking link to Alzheimer's that threatens millions of Americans

Scientists may have found a hidden cause of Alzheimer's that plagues millions of Americans, with one state found to be particularly at risk.

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Afghan data leak superinjunction left democracy in ‘deep freeze’, say journalists

The Independent’s home affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft gave evidence to MPs about the superinjunction on Tuesday

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2 w. 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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3 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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3 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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3 w. ago At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests

Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or familiesAt least 49 family members and colleagues of Afghans affected by the MoD’s mass data breach have been killed, according to research submitted to a parliamentary committee.The first on-the-ground research into 350 affected people in Afghanistan, the UK or elsewhere has found that, of the 231 respondents who received notification from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that their data had been leaked, 49 responded that either a colleague or a family member had been killed as a result of the data breach. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago 'A desperately sad story': SAM GREENHILL reveals the uncomfortable truth about Virginia Giuffre's bombshell memoir 

Virginia Roberts was the 'sex slave' of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew. Now she has told her own story - in an autobiography published posthumously.

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4 w. ago 'A desperately sad story': SAM GREENHILL reveals the uncomfortable truth about Virginia Guiffre's bombshell memoir 

Virginia Roberts was the 'sex slave' of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew. Now she has told her own story - in an autobiography published posthumously.

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4 w. ago 'A desperately sad story' SAM GREENHILL explores Virginia Guiffre's bombshell memoir amid Prince Andrew scandal

Virginia Roberts was the 'sex slave' of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew. Now she has told her own story - in an autobiography published posthumously.

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