08:50, Sat, Jul 19, 2025 Updated: 08:56, Sat, Jul 19, 2025 A huge military data breach led to Afghan migrants bringing more than 20 family members to Britain, despite previously being rejected for asylum. Officials were left scrambling to find ...

Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, who was covered by the super-injunction because of his knowledge of the events, told the BBC the breach was representative of the "chaos" around the relocation process, and the individual brought to the UK had used the data to get in.

A former British Paratrooper who spent more than a decade serving in numerous operations across Afghanistan has warned that the data breach will pose a security threat for years to come.

Hundreds of UK ministry of defence (MoD) data breaches have been revealed as questions intensify over its ability to keep sensitive information safe in the wake of the Afghan data breach.

Lawyers say they expect Afghans who supported British forces and had their details exposed in a catastrophic Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breach to receive compensation "in the thousands". Law firm Leigh Day says "dozens" of people looking to make a claim are getting in touch every day after finding out their details were included in the accidental leak which only became public knowledge after an unprecedented superinjunction was lifted on Tuesday.

The revelation of a major data leak and subsequent relocation of thousands of Afghans to the UK has raised serious questions.

In one incident last year, the names and bank details of 272,000 staff were breached when one of its systems was hacked

The former army officer said that even with "all his suffering," he does not regret helping the UK military. | ITV National News