Boris Johnson's former chief adviser says the Afghan data leak is 'not even close to the worst data breach' seen under previous governments.

Information that led to Afghan superinjunction being lifted was available last year, government admits - Fresh questions have been raised over why the unprecedented gagging order was maintained for so

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

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage launched a scathing attack on the government on Tuesday afternoon after it emerged Britain had secretly set up a scheme to relocate thousands of Afghans following a data leak.

Tens of thousands of Afghans could have been put in danger by a major data leak from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), forcing the government to transport thousands of people to Britain in secret at a cost of nearly half a billion pounds already.

Operation Rubific eventually saw 24,000 Afghans relocated to the UK, at a cost of billions of pounds to the taxpayer, in the "biggest covert evacuation operation in peacetime", said The Spectator.

It's been three years since a British official accidentally shared emails that potentially put up to 100,000 Afghan nationals in danger. Here's what's been happening behind the scenes.

Afghan interpreters worked shoulder-to-shoulder with British troops in Afghanistan, with calls for a public inquiry into the data breach and superinjunction.

Sir Keir Starmer raised the issue of the Afghan data breach at Prime Minsiter’s Questions. Tory ex-ministers have “serious questions to answer” about the Afghan data leak which resulted in an £850 million secret relocation scheme and an unprecedented legal gagging order, Sir Keir Starmer said.

The term ‘superinjunction’ may be familiar to people who paid attention to the news in the 2010s, thanks to their deployment by several high-profile figures who wanted to stop people reading about their private lives. It is a court order a step above an injunction, which is used to stop details of the case being published in public.

Get ready to cope” was the message from an aid worker to women returning to Taliban rule in Afghanistan after their expulsion from Iran.