LONDON: More than 3,000 Afghans, British troops and government officials have had their personal data breached following a cyberattack, the UK’s Ministry of Defense has said. Some of the victims may have had their information hacked for a second time, following the ministry’s high-profile Afghan data breach discovered in 2023, which was the subject of a superinjunction — preventing it from being publicly disclosed — until last month.

After British authorities accidentally exposed information about 19,000 Afghans, the government sought a legal order preventing disclosure of the breach.

The Ministry of Defence exposed the details of 18,700 Afghan applicants for UK sanctuary, putting them at risk of Taliban reprisals