The request was started after the names of soldiers from Special Forces were leaked in fresh data injuries

July 19, 2025, 23:49

The army has initiated an investigation after it turned out that the names of the SAS personnel have been publicly available online for a decade.

A internal publication of the Grenadier Guards – the most high -ranking infantry regiment in the British army – included the names and operations of their highest ranking officers, which were publicly available online for a decade, The Times reported.

The latest edition of the publication, which was published and published online last year, contained the names of ten men in the regiment alongside the code name “Mab”, Shorthand for Mod a Block, the location of the British special forces in the Parkbarracks of Regent's Park in London.

The code name is easy to find in the military and it is easily known. This makes it easy to conclude terrorists or enemy states that the soldiers were either part of an elite unit or were associated with an elite unit.

General Sir Roly Walker, the head of the army, said: “The security of our people is of great importance and we take every violation very seriously.

I have directed an immediate review in our data exchange agreements with our regimental and corps associations to ensure that there are appropriate instructions and protective measures to best support the important work that you do. “

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John Healey, the Minister of Defense, is said to be “angry” because of the violation.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said that measures were taken to remove sensitive personal information from the website, and the staff involved was notified and protected.

The mod said that the instruction was issued in April to ensure that the information has been removed and that the majority was removed, there are some information. The information is no longer available on the website and hard copies of the publication are no longer sold.

The Times reported in April that identities of the serving members of the special units had accidentally been published by two publications associated with the British army for more than a decade, but had been retained for the publications on the publications for the protection of soldiers. Another regiment removed similar publications from the public, but the guards could not do so. The information was deleted after the mod had been contacted again on Friday.

The internal publication 2024 of the guards also contained details that were assigned to the national secretariat of the cabinet office, a team of military and intelligence officers who advise the prime minister. A soldier who served in the personal team of General Walker was also named.

The document with the information is created by the Grenadier Guards Regimental Association, a non -profit company that consists of former service members. These associations will regularly contain details of active staff and the activities of relevant regiments to support their work.

The violation follows the revelation at the beginning of this week that a list with the names of thousands of Afghans who strive for a refuge in Great Britain, as well as those by SAS members and MI6 employees were accidentally leaked through.

The government used a super injunction, the first of its kind to keep information secrecy. The super disorder prevented the media from reporting that a data record that contains the personal data of almost 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan moving and auxiliary politics (ARAP) were published in February 2022 by a defense officer.

The mod searched and received a contra Mundum Superinjunction – a rare legal arrangement that not only performed the publication of the story, but also prevented someone from doing so that there was even an injunction. In court it was described as “constitutionally unprecedented”.

The super injunction was lifted on Tuesday. Defense Minister John Healey offered a “sincere apology” for the violation in the commons and added that the mod “installed new software to share data safely”.