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CountryThe Ministry of Defense, after posting sensitive details from data breech on Facebook, offers to expedite a review of a rejected rehabilitation application of Afghan National, BBC.
The person published nine names from a dataset, which had a description of thousands of Afghans, who applied to the UK to move after seizing the Taliban power, and indicated that he could leave the rest.
He received the details after Britain’s special forces were sent out of headquarters in a contingent data violation in February 2022.
British authorities tracked the man down and strongly requested that he moved the data down, in turn offered an early review of his rejuvenated rehabilitation application.
The BBC understands that the man is now in the UK, his rejected application was overturned. It is believed that he is not facing any criminal allegations regarding his conduct.
Government sources close to this process said that the BBC person had essentially blackmailed his way in the country using leaked datasets.
When asked about the person’s actions and the subsequent transfer in the UK, MOD refused to comment on the case.
A spokesperson said that “anyone who comes to UK under any Afghan rehabilitation schemes” should “go through strong safety checks to obtain”.
The BBC has also approached the Met Police for comment.
Getty imagesJohnny Mercer, former veteran minister, who was covered by super-injections due to his knowledge of incidents, reported that the BBC the Breach was a representative of “chaos” around the rehabilitation process, and the person brought to Britain used to use data.
“He named Facebook and essentially bribed the modes to go to the country. The Ministry of Defense offered to intensify its case and the next thing you know is that he is in the UK,” said Mercer.
“There were many data leaks from the mode about these applications. I think you lack chaos and care of how things were being run at that time.”
In February 2022, someone working at the UK’s special forces (UKKSF) headquarters accidentally emailed the personal data of every applicant for the UK’s Afghan Rehabilitation Scheme till date – about 19,000 people – for someone outside the government – about 19,000 people.
The data was sent to an Afghan person living in the UK, who passed information on people including people in Afghanistan. A person in Afghanistan, after rejecting his application, posted some data on Facebook.
A modest case worker helps people seeking rehabilitation in August 2023 for the presence of data on Facebook, warning a defense minister, who is probably called that the Taliban can catch it “bone-chilling”.
The data came from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) Rehabilitation Scheme, which was seized by the Taliban established in 2021 Afghanistan’s control.
It was highly sensitive because the Afghan citizens who worked with the British government during the conflict with the Taliban were at risk of serious loss and even back to power with the group.
Breach inspired the previous government to bring some people to the database in the UK to set up a secret £ 850 meter emergency rehabilitation plan.
Both the Breach and the latter plan were kept secret by an unprecedented super-indicators, until it was raised by the High Court Judge Shri Justice Chamberlain on Tuesday.
Emergency Plan – known as the Afghanistan response route and has been established in April 2024 – as a result of about 4,500 Afghans being brought to Britain, which is expected to further 2,400.
The government announced this week that the scheme was being discontinued, but said that the rehabilitation motion made to those living in Afghanistan would be honored.
Special force was a role in veto role
The UKSF officer, who inadvertently leaked data, was assisting with less number of applications from special forces when there was a contingent violation.
The officer was in possession of full dataset as the UKF – SAS and SBS -rich Umbrella Group – was given a secret veto on ARAP applications from former members of Afghan particular forces.
BBC revealed last year The UKF used the veto to block hundreds of Afghan commandos who fought with SAS and SBS to move to UK.
Documents received by Panorama revealed that special forces had rejected the applications despite some compelling evidence of service with SAS on the conduct of dangerous night raids.
Personal information of many of those special forces was included in large -scale data violations this week.
But sources told the BBC that they were sidelined in the emergency withdrawal process and their matters were compulsorily stopped, while the case workers were instructed to prioritize those who worked on British military bases for immediate withdrawal.
Downing Street on Tuesday refused to say whether the UKSF officer had mistakenly leaked data, he had to face disciplinary action. The BBC has confirmed that it is no longer in the post when it captured at the time of violation.
The Mod refused to comment on how many applicants affected by Brech were damaged by the Taliban over the years. It states that some of them whose data was compromised by Breach, was not informed until after the super-recipient was lifted.
Defense Secretary John Heli on Wednesday told the BBC that he was “unable to ask to ensure” that no Afghan was killed as a result of the data violation, and the Taliban has “almost certainly” the same type of information.
Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, he offered to “forgives honestly” to those whose details were involved in violation, which they described as “serious departmental error” and “clear violation of strict data security protocol”.
Helle told MPs that an independent review found that it was “excessively unlikely”. A person would have been targeted only because of a violation.
The 2024 High Court verdict was made public on Tuesday, Mr. Justice Chamberlain said it was “quite possible” that some of them who saw parts of the documents leaked in a Facebook group had seen “Taliban intruders or talked to Taliban-conceded persons”.
Erin Alcock, a lawyer for firm Leh Dey, who assisted hundreds of ARAP applicants, including dozens of former Afghan commandos, said the violation represented the government’s “horrific failure” to protect the government, and therefore security, which is a very weak group of individuals “.
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