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5 months agoUK newsMoD breach of Afghans' data could have posed threat to life in Taliban's hands'
The UK Ministry of Defence has been fined £350,000 for a data breach that exposed the personal information of Afghan nationals seeking to flee to the UK after the Taliban takeover.
The breach involved the mistaken copying of details belonging to 265 people into emails sent by the government, which could have led to a threat to life if the information fell into the hands of the Taliban. [ more ]