Data on Afghans linked to UK resettlement leaked
Information on Afghans held in the UK was leaked, and data on participants in a resettlement programme was also exposed in a cyber-attack on a contractor linked to the Ministry of Defence. The son of a data breach victim voiced fears that his family could be killed if they were deported. Dozens more cases of leaks of information on Afghans subsequently came to light.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information on Afghans and resettlement programme participants
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United Kingdom
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Timeline
- The son of a data breach victim voiced fears that his family's lives could be at risk if they were deported.
- It came to light that data on Afghans in a resettlement programme had been exposed in a cyber-attack on a contractor linked to the UK Ministry of Defence.
- Dozens more cases of leaks of information on Afghans came to light.
4 related reports
- My family may be killed if deported, says son of Afghan caught in UK data breach
- Cyber-attack on MoD-linked contractor exposes data of Afghans in resettlement scheme
- Dozens more UK Afghan data breaches uncovered
- David Erdos: How Exposed? The Information Commissioner’s Office and the Afghan Spreadsheet Data Breach
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