A spreadsheet containing the personal information of about 18,700 Afghans and their relatives – a total of about 33,000 people – was accidentally forwarded to the wrong recipients by email in February 2022, Healey told lawmakers in the House of Commons.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has demanded answers from former Conservative ministers over a major data breach that exposed the personal details of nearly 24,000 Afghans who aided British forces,

Manchester-based law firm Brings Legal stated it has already registered nearly 1,000 Afghan ARAP applicants for potential legal proceedings. These individuals were part of a UK government initiative to resettle Afghans who had worked alongside British forces and were at risk after the Taliban’s return to power.

Afghan interpreters worked shoulder-to-shoulder with British troops in Afghanistan, with calls for a public inquiry into the data breach and superinjunction.

THE Taliban has chillingly warned it will hunt down thousands of Afghan refugees on a ‘kill list’ after the UK’s huge data breach. Details of almost 20,000 refugees fleeing

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021