The secret Afghan transport scheme was prepared after the main data breach

Thousands of Afghans were transferred to the United Kingdom under a secret plan created after a British official leaked inadvertently their data, and can be revealed.

In February 2022, personal details were leaked to about 19,000 people who moved to the United Kingdom after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

The previous government learned of rating in August 2023 and established a new settlement plan after nine months, which witnessed that 4,500 Afghans arrive in the United Kingdom so far.

The confidentiality of the leakage and transportation scheme was maintained after the government obtained super functions.

The main data breach, the response, and the number of Afghans have not been published the right to live in the United Kingdom as a result of Tuesday, after the Supreme Court judge spent raising the declaration order.

The leakage contained the names and details of the communication and some family information for people who are likely to be at risk of damage from the Taliban.

The government also revealed on Tuesday:

• The Ministry of Defense (MD) believes that 600 Afghan soldiers are listed in the leakage, in addition to 1,800 members of their families, are still in Afghanistan
• The scheme is closed, but the transmission offers that were already submitted to those who remain in Afghanistan will be honored
• The secret plan – which is officially called the Afghan transport path – costs 400 million pounds until now, and it is expected that it will cost 400 million pounds to 450 million pounds.
• The breach was mistakenly committed by an official who did not reveal his name in the Ministry of Defense
• People whose details were only leaked were informed on Tuesday

Speaking to the House of Commons, Defense Secretary John Healy gave a “sincere apology” to those whose details were included in the leakage, which appeared to the light when some appeared on Facebook.

He said that it was the result of a subscriber that was sent via e -mail “outside the approved government systems”, which he described as “a dangerous mistake in departments” – although the capital police decided that the investigation of the police was not necessary.

Healy said that the leak was “one of the many data losses” related to evacuation in Afghanistan during that period, and it contained the names of senior military officials, government officials and deputies.

The Ministry of Defense refused to determine the number of people who may have been arrested or killed as a result of the violation of the data, but Healy told MPS that the independent review had found that “the person is unlikely to be targeted only because of this.

He said that the review has also ruled that the secret plan is “very large intervention” given the “limited” risks that the leak poses.

In the ruling of the Supreme Court issued on Tuesday, Mr. Judge Chamberlain said it was “quite possible” that some of those who saw a Facebook publication, which contains the personal data leaked, “Is the Taliban sneaks or talked about it to the individuals who hold the Taliban.”

An email was sent to those who were affected by rags, urged them to “be careful”, take steps such as protecting their activities via the Internet and not responding to messages from unknown contacts.

Haley said that those who were transferred to the United Kingdom were already calculated in immigration figures.

On Tuesday, the disclosure of the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, which witnessed the Taliban restoration force and soon surrounding the capital Kabul.

The leakage included the names of people who applied for the Political and Afghan Political Plan (ARAP), which was established by the UK government to quickly address requests by people who fear revenge on the Taliban and transfer them to the United Kingdom.

The evacuation – which has witnessed 36,000 Afghans to the United Kingdom – has already been criticized in the years that it had passed, as the Foreign Affairs Committee found in 2022 as a “disaster” and “betrayal”.

When the government created a new transfer plan last year in response to the leak, the press members quickly learned of the plans.

The government asked the judge to impose a judicial order on the media. The court then imposed a kind of system that prevented the outlets of the outlets to report any details of the leakage, or even that the irritable matter itself exists. Healy said he was not aware of any other similar judicial orders that exist.

He told the House Council that he was even prevented from talking about the breach because of the “unprecedented” gossip, after he was informed while the defense minister is still shadow.

Reading a summary of his ruling in court, Mr. Judge Chamberlain said that the decision “led to fears of freedom of freedom.”

He continued: “The superior pressure was the effect of closing the normal mechanisms for the complete accountability that operates in democracy.

“This led to what I describe as a” scrutiny vacuum. “

The documents of the court revealed on Tuesday revealed that the then Defense Minister Ben Wallet “personally” submitted a request for a strict judicial order in order to give the government time to do “everything in its power with the help of those who may have been at the risk of more danger by solving the medium of data.”

The irritable order was extended in November 2023 on the basis, perhaps the Taliban was not aware of the leaked data.

However, Mr. Judge Chamberlain decided to raise it on the ground, and the Ministry’s internal review found that the Taliban “may already have the main information in the data group” and confirm its existence “unlikely” to “raise” the “risks” facing the affected.

“This has never happened and was an unacceptable breach of all relevant data protocols,” said shadow defense minister James Carridge, who was in the government when the secret plan was created.

Erine Alcock, Layy Day’s fixed lawyer, who helped hundreds of ARAP and family members, called the breach “catastrophic failure”.

Earlier this month, the government confirmed that it offered batches of the Afghans who The information was hacked in a separate data breach.