Ministry of Defence Responsible for a terrible data leakage The one who gave the life of 100,000 Afghans still works for the government, it has emerged.
Major violations occurred in February 2022 After a member of the armed forces, a spreadsheet was shared inadvertently, including thousands of people who said they were in danger Taliban And applied for the sanctuary in Britain.
Leak, which came to threatening to publish a full list on Facebook, inspired thousands of Afghans to vacate in Britain under a top secret rehabilitation plan, which the government had estimated the cost of billions. Details of leakage, and later withdrawn, is kept in wrapped for Nearly two years as the result of an unprecedented superinjunction.
Asked whether the serviceman behind the leak was still employed by the government, Defense Secretary John Hele told the podcast of news agents: “They are no longer doing Afghan abbreviated and the same work at the end.”
The second time asked whether the officer was still employed by the government, Mr. Hele refused to prepare the matter.
Instead, he said: “It is greater than the actions of a person.
“In this government, now as the Defense Secretary, my biggest concern and my first focus to enter the government was that it was completely unprecedented that would get a grip of something.”
Journalist Lewis Gudaul asked for the third time whether the person is still a government employee and the Defense Secretary refrained from re -replying. Pushing for the fourth time, he replied: “I’m not really going to the workers’ matters”.
Asked yet, he moved forward: “My first priority was not trying to operate any kind of witch on the defense officer, which released the spreadsheet, causing this deep data to damage.
“Your argument is that accountability can start from today, accountability in the appointed time, as these facts are properly examined and investigated.”
Mr. Gudol told Mr. Hele that “We can assume that someone has been fired on the basis of your answers”. When? Independent The mod asked to clarify whether the servicemen were still employed by the government, a spokesman said there was nothing to add.
Database had 33,000 records and confidential information from more than 18,700 applicants Ministry of DefenceAfghan Rehabilitation Scheme (ARAP). This included email addresses and phone numbers of applicants, as well as their father’s name and his case status.
It also included the names of some British government officials.
It is understood that the anonymous officer tried to verify the information about the application and emailed the dataset, believing the dataset only about 150 rows.
More than more than a year of release, the mod was discovered about more than a year, when part of the dataset was anonymously posted on a Facebook group in August 2023, the authorities fear the breech -affected people that if the Taliban received his data, there may be a risk of harassment, torture or death.
In September 2023, an unprecedented superinity in the High Court was designed to reduce the risk of alerting the Taliban for the existence of data, which banned any news about the leaks of leaks or the order being discussed.
The ministers made a secret Afghan rehabilitation plan to help secretly transfer more than 16,000 Afghans to the UK – a secret Afghan rehabilitation plan – Afghanistan’s reaction route. Around 8,000 more Afghans are still due to coming to Britain.
When asked about the next stages, Mr. Hele said that influential committees of MPs, such as the Defense Selection Committee, should be launched in deep interrogation, which happened.
He said he felt that he would be “very, not too possibly” if he was in a position when he was discovered for data breech.
Senior MPs have warned about the example set by the Super Prohibition to cover the data breech. Former Tory Leader Sir Ian Duncan Smith Said: “I am worried that the super prohibition was implemented because it is strange, it stopped any independent speech or exam in Parliament and we are still not intelligent who was responsible or why it happened.”
The superintendent raised on Tuesday is considered to be the longest permanent order of its kind and for the first time the government has demanded such restrictive measures against the media.