SAS and Great Britain spies named in Afghan data injury

The identities of more than 100 British officials, including members of the Special Forces and MI6, were affected in a data injury that also endangered thousands of Afghans, which were at risk.

The latest failure of the violation was kept secret by an injunction until Thursday when the arrangement was partially lifted by a judge of the High Court.

This enabled the media organizations that detailed case notes in the database contained secret data of special forces and spies.

The government had already admitted on Tuesday that the data of almost 19,000 Afghans who had worked with the British during the 20th War in Afghanistan and applied for the revival in the UK, was accidentally leaked.

Many were assessed as a risk of serious damage or even deaths, since the Taliban retaliation applied for those who had worked with the British government during the conflict.

This was a part of the reason why the information was protected by a so-called “super-in-lying”-a Art Gaggingen order that prevents reporting on the existence of the injunction.

The data injury occurred in February 2022, but was only discovered from August 2023 when someone in Afghanistan, who had received the data, published part of it on Facebook and stated that they could publish the rest.

The BBC announced on Wednesday that the Ministry of Defense (Mod) offered to accelerate the application of the individual and brought it into the country after publishing the data – a consequence of events that the government sources said, was “essentially blackmail”.

The mod refused to comment on the actions of the individual, however, said that “everyone who comes to Great Britain according to Afghan moving programs” “has to carry out robust security controls in order to receive entry”.

The discovery of the violation in 2023 forced the government to have set up the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) – a resettlement scheme for those affected who, despite the risk of their security, was not communicated.

The program has already moved 4,500 Afghans and family members to Great Britain, and another 2,400 people are expected at an estimated price of 850 million GBP.

The accidental leak was the result of someone who worked at the headquarters of the British Special Forces in London and accidentally sent more than 30,000 drive applications to one person outside the government by e -mail because he believed that he sent data to only 150 people.

After picking up the super-in-in-monitoring on Tuesday, a secondary injunction had prevented the revelations about personal special forces and security services that were compromised.

However, this was also lifted on Thursday that lawyers, who represented both the mod and a group of media organizations, achieved a compromise, which meant that journalists could report the additional facts.

Defense Minister John Healey informed Parliament on Tuesday that the violation was a “serious departmental error” and admitted that it was “only one of many data loss” in relation to Afghan moving schemes.

The shadow defense secretary James Cartlidge apologized on behalf of the former conservative government, which was in power when discovering the leak.

The mod has refused to say how many people in Afghanistan could have been violated by the data injury. The Taliban government said on Thursday that it had not arrested or monitored Afghans affected by the leak.

But relatives of Afghans, which were called in the leak, told the BBC that they still fear for their family in the country, and the Taliban's efforts to find their named relatives after the leak.

A Mod spokesman said: “It is a long -term policy of successive governments not to comment on Special Forces.

“We take the security of our staff very seriously, especially those in sensitive positions, and always have suitable measures to protect their security.”