What I told MPs about the government’s catastrophic Afghan data leak

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For nearly two years, media organisations – including The Independent – knew about an MoD data breach that had exposed the details of 18,700 Afghan applicants to UK resettlement schemes but were prevented from reporting what had happened due to an unprecedented superinjunction. Home affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft was called to give evidence at an MP-led inquiry into the disastrous error

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What I told MPs about the government’s catastrophic Afghan data leak

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