"The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has recorded 49 data breaches over the past four years concerning applications from Afghans seeking sanctuary in the UK. Incidents include an MoD official leaving a laptop open on a train and an "officially sensitive" email being accidentally sent to the 140,000-member Civil Service Sports & Social Club. These new revelations follow a "catastrophic" February 2022 breach where a spreadsheet with 33,000 lines of data, affecting 18,700 Afghan applicants, was erroneously emailed out."
"These new revelations follow a "catastrophic" February 2022 breach where a spreadsheet with 33,000 lines of data, affecting 18,700 Afghan applicants, was erroneously emailed out. David Williams, the MoD's top civil servant, admitted the 2022 breach was due to a "lack of appropriate systems" and the absence of secure casework or contact management systems. Five of the 49 breaches were reported to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), which fined the MoD 350,000 for "blind copy" errors but did not investigate the larger 2022 breach."
The Ministry of Defence recorded 49 data breaches over the past four years involving applications from Afghans seeking sanctuary in the UK. Incidents include an MoD official leaving a laptop open on a train and an "officially sensitive" email accidentally sent to the 140,000-member Civil Service Sports & Social Club. A February 2022 breach saw a spreadsheet of 33,000 lines, affecting 18,700 Afghan applicants, erroneously emailed out. David Williams acknowledged the 2022 breach resulted from a "lack of appropriate systems" and the absence of secure casework and contact management systems. Five breaches were reported to the Information Commissioners Office, which fined the MoD 350,000 for "blind copy" errors but did not investigate the larger 2022 breach.
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