Security correspondent

A British officer has inadvertently leaked a dataset, including thousands of people’s names and contact details, which were trying to escape from the possible Taliban revenge attacks.
In April 2024, The government started transferring some of them to the UK – But we are only learning this now because the extraordinary length had gone to stop the breech and later to come to light of the response.
As the entire picture is finally revealed to the public, these questions are still facing Britain’s security establishment.
What can be done about the danger of leaks?
This has happened before and it will undoubtedly again.
Think that WikiLeaks, Snowden and all countless cyber-hoc and ransomware were faced by companies on almost daily basis.
Data leaks are not new, but sometimes-and it is quite possible that it is one of those times-they can be life-threatening.
The revelations in the light would have sent the spine of thousands of people, probably thousands of people who are afraid of vengeance by the Taliban.
For those who are already excited to Britain, this means that they can probably never go back home unless the Taliban is in power.
For 600 former Afghan government soldiers and their estimated 1,800 dependents still in Afghanistan, the news would mean that they are unlikely to breathe easily until Britain leads them to their promise to take them out safely.
It is important to note that all this was not the result of some intentional, refined cyber attack by the state-supported hacking group.
It developed with an unknown mistake made by just one person working for the Ministry of Defense.
What does it say about Britain’s moral responsibility?
From October 2001 to August 2021, the UK forces were deployed in Afghanistan over a period of about 20 years, with US and NATO allies.
During this time he worked with his Afghan government colleagues, rely a lot on his local knowledge and expertise.
The most sensitive region was in special forces (SFs), for which the Taliban reserved a special hatred.
When the rest of Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan fell into the Taliban in the summer of 2021, there was a realization that now people who had a priority to transfer Afghan SF soldiers and their families for safety.
But thousands of more Afghans also put their lives at risk to work with the British in those two decades.
Many people dropped it out of patriotism, assuming that they were working to secure a better Afghanistan.
Some did it for money, some did so because they trusted Britain to protect their lives and their personal details.
In this way a data breech now threatens to reduce any future promise by a British officer that says: “Believe us, your data is safe with us.”
Was there any cover-up?
When this “unauthorized data breech” was finally discovered, 18 months after this, the UK government obtained it known as a super-location, which prevents its publication by the media.
A super-innovation is so dry that it means that you cannot even report the fact that you cannot report it.
This remedy has now been removed only after an independent review.
A logical case can be made that this remedy was necessary to protect the lives of people affected by data violations.
However, questions are now being raised about whether prohibitory orders have been implemented by the previous, orthodox government – perhaps it can also be for political purposes.
The High Court Judge, who lifted the super-innovation, said that it was “the effect of completely shutting down the general system of accountability in democracy”.