"Watch live as The Independent Social Affairs Correspondent Holly Bancroft gives evidence to a Defence Committee meeting over the Afghan data breach and super-injunction on Tuesday (4 November). Ms Bancroft's reporting revealed that a huge Ministry of Defence data breach put the lives of up to 100,000 Afghans at risk and prompted thousands of them to be evacuated to Britain under a covert 7bn scheme then was kept secret for almost two years by an unprecedented superinjunction."
"She is joined in Parliament by Larisa Brown from The Times and Sam Greenhill from the Daily Mail. The leak, in February 2022, exposed the details of thousands of Afghans who said they were in danger from the Taliban because of their links to UK forces and now wanted to escape to Britain. The blunder triggered a top-secret government operation, codenamed Operation Rubific, which involved 16,000 Afghans being brought to the UK as part of Britain's largest covert peacetime evacuation,"
A Ministry of Defence data breach exposed details of thousands of Afghans who said they were in danger from the Taliban due to links with UK forces. The leak in February 2022 prompted a top-secret government operation, codenamed Operation Rubific, which brought around 16,000 Afghans to the UK as part of a covert peacetime evacuation. The breach put as many as 100,000 Afghans at risk and resulted in thousands being evacuated under a covert £7bn scheme that was kept secret from MPs and the public by an unprecedented super-injunction for almost two years.
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