LONDON: A UK defense official revealed sensitive personal information related to Afghans fleeing the Taliban when he left his laptop screen in public view on a train.
The incident was among dozens of data security breaches involving the Ministry of Defence unit handling the relocation of people who had worked alongside British forces during the war in Afghanistan.
In another blunder, an email containing sensitive data from the program was accidentally sent to a civil service sports and social club.
The breaches are among 49 incidents that have come to light in the fallout from a massive MoD data breach in 2022 when a spreadsheet containing details of almost 19,000 Afghans fleeing the Taliban was inadvertently leaked.
Those listed were applying under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy set up just a few months before the Taliban captured Kabul.
