An Afghan national's resettlement application was expedited after he published sensitive details from a UK military data breach on Facebook. The data included names from a dataset of Afghans seeking relocation to the UK after the Taliban's takeover. British authorities requested the data's removal, offering an expedited review of his application in return. He is now in the UK due to this overturned application and reportedly faces no criminal charges. Former veterans minister Johnny Mercer indicated that this case reflects the disorganization surrounding the relocation process, highlighting multiple data leaks from the Ministry of Defence regarding these applications.
The Ministry of Defence offered to expedite the review of a rejected resettlement application of an Afghan national after he posted sensitive details from a data breach on Facebook.
The breach was representative of the 'chaos' around the relocation process, and the individual brought to the UK had used the data to get in.
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