A data breach has put the lives of around 100,000 Afghans at risk, prompting a significant £7 billion resettlement effort. The incident involved the unintentional release of a dataset containing personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghan applicants. Following the breach, an operation was initiated to relocate 16,000 Afghans to the UK. An injunction was issued to restrict media reporting to protect these individuals from Taliban retaliation. Defence Secretary John Healey emphasized the beginning of accountability and scrutiny regarding the decisions made surrounding this situation.
Defence secretary John Healey has warned accountability starts now after a data leak put up to 100,000 lives of Afghan lives at risk and prompted thousands of them to come to Britain under a 7bn resettlement scheme.
The dataset containing the personal information of almost 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy was released in error in February 2022 by a defence official.
It triggered an operation to bring 16,000 Afghans to the UK - and saw an injunction, later upgraded to a superinjunction, issued that banned the media reporting on the leak in a bid to prevent the Taliban finding out.
Put to him that no one had yet taken accountability for what happened, Mr Healey told BBC Breakfast: Accountability starts now, doesn't it, because it allows the proper scrutiny of what went on.
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