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Sensitive details exposed by the huge Afghan data breach that put tens of thousands of people at risk were revealed by the defence secretary – but the media are still banned from reporting them.John Healey offered a “sincere apology” on behalf of the British Government for a massive leak which shared information about Afghans seeking to escape to the UK because of their links to British troops and could only be reported after a two-year fight to lift an unprecedented superinjunction.
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inews.co.uk on MSNCrucial MoD email safety check was scrapped before Afghan data leakDefence and security insiders claim essential cyber protections for ministry emails were removed before the data leak
Soldiers from two specialist units have faced death and torture by the Taliban after being let down by Britain
More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in largest covert peacetime evacuation after MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancro
Penny Mordaunt has said the person behind the MoD data breach should lose their job to show that the incident was "wrong".